What happened to Barbaro's DNA?

Question

I thought I saw a story that Barbaro's DNA or blood or maybe s***n or something were used in another horse. What happened with that? He going to have some ponies sometime soon?

Answer 1

Barbaro's DNA, or what's left of it now that his remains were cremated, is in an urn which will be buried under the statue of him at the front entrance of Churchill Downs in Kentucky. Cloning is not permitted in the Thoroughbred breeding industry, and any horse bred or born that way is ineligible for both registration with the Jockey Club and racing. The other part of this is that Barbaro's owners made a point of announcing that they had never even had the horse's fertility tested, so they had no idea whether or not he ever could have made it as a sire if he had lived. So the likelyhood of the colt's DNA being used for any purpose is extremely remote.

BTW: Stallions do not sire "ponies" as offspring. The correct term for baby horses is "foals", and either "colt' for a male, or "filly' for a female. A pony is a small horse under 14.2 hands tall- not a baby horse.

Answer 2

Only horses conceived by natural means - ie the stallion physically mounting the mare - can be registered to race, therefore any horse that has been cloned or genetically manipulated in any way cannot be raced.

These are the rules that are in force across the world.

I doubt very much that they stored any s***n from him, but it is possible they stored some blood to examine DNA or similar.

Answer 3

Well,  FYI:

"Ponies" aren't Thoroughbreds, dear, they're just little horses. Thoroughbred babies are called foals that are either colts or fillies.

According to the Thoroughbred breeding regulations, there's no way his DNA will be used to create more Barbaros.

Answer 4

I don't believe that they used any part of Barbaro in any other animal.  In order to be a registered thoroughbred (which a horse needs to be to be allowed to race), it must be bred naturally... no artificial insemination is allowed.  I know that they didn't save any of his s***n... i specifically remember Gretchen Jackson saying that they never even thought about that... they didn't even test to see if he was fertile.  I believe that all of Barbaro was lost when Barbaro died.

Barbaro does, however, have 2 living full brothers.  Nicanor is a 2 year old this year and is training for racing.  Lentenor is a yearling who will begin training at the end of this year.

Answer 5

Sometimes they use a grade horse to be bred with him to make sure he can make it as a Stud

Remember the Secretariat baby they bred to a Appy as a test mare ?

They wanted to race that baby, but they used that mare as a test mare ,, So no one would register that baby

But I think they won the case ?

But his baby was that son

so Any way they will use a grade horse to make sure he is capable of sireing baby's and that live for at least 24 hours

So yes there are horses out there that where bred with some of the top stallions

But you can not get papers on them ..

The appy mare I think the baby 's name was First Secretariat

Answer 6

That is very unlikely.  If they did use artificial insemination on any colt, it would not be a legally registered thoroughbred since AS is not allowed.