Cloned mule siblings to race

[Kismet]

Updated: 8:57 p.m. CT May 24, 2006
STOCKTON, Calif. - In a low-stakes mule race in a remote corner of the West, nature versus nurture will be put to the test as two of the horse family’s earliest clones challenge naturally bred runners next month in Nevada.

It’s not exactly the Kentucky Derby, but two cloned mules named Idaho Star and Idaho Gem will compete in a professional mule race in Winnemucca, Nev., where the professional mule racing season begins.

Idaho Gem was the first animal from the horse family cloned, and his brother, Idaho Star, was the third. Both were born three years ago and carry identical DNA taken from a fetus produced by the same parents that sired a champion mule racer named Taz.

(compete story at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12955941/?GT1=8199)

I likes de mules.

Wonder if anyone is thinking about Barbaro, the Kentucky Derby winner, injured at the Preakness, being used as a similar experiment for thoroughbreds?

I know the Racing Commission insists on "natural" methods for breeding, but...things change.

 

[Yvsa]

I likes de mules.

A guy I worked with that became a good friend belonged to a riding group. Most of the people rode horses but not Dave.
Dave rode a mule, said they were more level headed and a helluva lot more sure footed than a horse and they didn't spook as bad.
Dave was another knife knut and a great guy to work with and he also liked de mules.
Dave was wanting to make a big knife for use on mule back and he would've loved the khukuris!!!!