Tullis Matson, Horse Je Taime Flamenco and Kate Ashmore, Director and General Manager, at AI Stallion Services
In a chat with podcast, The Graveyard Shift, Mr Matson said: “The cloning side can be a bit controversial – like when Dolly the sheep was born in 1996, but things have moved on. Stallion AI is also a global centre of excellence for equine semen collection, processing, storage and distribution. In the past two decades its specialist team has carried out in excess of 20,000 collections from over 1,200 stallions.
“Now with Gemini Genetics, we can save the whole genetic profile of rare, endangered and elite equines, and produce exact genetic replicas for breed preservation or for sport and performance, via cloning. And this is all from a skin sample, rather than semen. It's quite amazing to be generating new life in this way.”