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Sunday, August 10, 2003

Cloning Shergar

The ultimate ringer

I thought of this before reading about "My Little Cloney" in the broadsheets this week. Dick Francis has said he won't write any more of his horse-racing thrillers, but how about this for an idea: cloning a champion racehorse. They could train it secretly, and assuming it appeared to have the ability, pull off a huge betting coup by letting it run properly after letting it lose a few times. Horses race from two-year-old. So with DNA from, say, Shergar (now there would be another interesting twist, Shergar was kidnapped and held to ransom, but never seen again) you could have a champion horse running within three years.

Ed.

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