Comments on: Seeing Double: The Debate on Horse Cloning

By: kate

kate — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 09:38:12 +0000

What about cloning a treasured family horse that was taken too soon by chance or tragedy? What about cloning to keep a family line in a series of elderly horses that produced well and there’s no offspring left to continue?

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 02:12:50 +0000

I own different breeds of horses. I believe cloning is just another way for a breeder to be able to make more money. Just because a horse a good bloodline does not quarantee that horse will be anything like its parents. So no I do not think they should allow cloning or clones to be registered.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 02 Aug 2014 18:53:37 +0000

Cloning to save a rare animal is great, I have not read about a rare horse, this will take the wonderfull mystery out of waiting for that speical baby.

By: kygal

kygal — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 19:50:51 +0000

Cloning is not something I approve of it is a waste of money unless it is going create a cure for a fatal disease. What is next cloning humans? There is enough natural healthy horses out there so why clone. I agree with Pat it is a waste.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:53:29 +0000

Money wasted that could be used to save our wild horses or contributed to rescues. Already too many horses that are being cast aside for slaughter, we have become sadly enough a throwaway society.
Oh yes, it would be amazing to see another Seabiscuit or Man O’ War or Yellow Mount, but it’s not a part of the plan. I believe it’s not what God created us to do. To thrive yes, but not duplicated.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:39:48 +0000

Cloning does nothing more than re-use DNA. It does not help whatsoever. Dolly the sheep did not live that long, and neither will horse clones. That plus a clone is still a different animal, and we all know horses that have talent but just don’t wanna. Clones are not total duplicates….their mental keenness and desire are NOT the same as the donor’s. I sense that clones bred to clones could bring chaos…..actually breeding crazy, mad horses. Genetics has proved that over and over in the botony world.

By: Lonni

Lonni — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:48:42 +0000

Most of you think cloning is for racing and will create an unfair advantage. Cloning is not allowed in the TB or AQHA registry. They can’t use them for studs either. Then the rest think we are going to make one more horse starve or be slaughtered. Cloning is expensive and it may only create maybe 3-6 new horses a year. This won’t make a dent in the horse world.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:11:15 +0000

We all know it wont stop with horses… soon people will selectivly replicate babies (humans). This is just the gateway to desensitize us to the idea, mark my words the day will come.
That said, regarding to horses, do people have any notion on sportsmanship? ethics? I mean who wants to go to a hose race and see 5 secretariats race eachother? why do people always want to rig a sport and can’t just enjoy nature and what it currently can offer. So many people want lab experiments as their pets and kids. People who are for it want short cuts and those who say to preserve a breed is ridiculous because you don’t preserve something by limiting it to one horse.

By: Ala

Ala — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:09:52 +0000

A big problem is if we start cloning rare breeds it can easily get out of hand and into our horses that are winners in the horse world.

By: Ala

Ala — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:02:39 +0000

I might just understand cloning rare breeds, but imagine 500 Zenyattas running around… we that like to train and have imperfect horses will be forced to stop. All of the horses will eventually become super high standard and perfect and probably still expensive. The love of training and working with horses will die with cloning, there will still be training involved but not the same one on one. Don’t clone and take the hundreds of poor Mustangs from West America and train them.