CRYOZOOTECH is happy to announce the birth of the clone of 2003 dressage world champion POETIN 2, a Brandeburg mare that died prematurely in 2005. Now CRYOZOOTECH enters the dressage world. This achievement illustrates the use of the cloning technique for genetic safeguarding.
POETIN 2 was born in 1997. This Brandeburg mare has an interesting life story:
POETIN 2, (x Sandro Hit), was promised to a bright future: she won the German championship and the world championship in dressage for young horses, with so far unequalled grades (she got a 10/10 for her trotting performance!). The mare was sold € 2.5 million in 2003 to an ING Bank / van der Zwan farm (Netherlands) consortium. Xavier Marie acquired her in 2005. Unfortunately, when she reached his place, POETIN 2 had acute laminitis from which she did not recover. She was euthanised in December 2005.
Xavier Marie asked CRYOZOOTECH for her cells to be collected beforehand, with the objective in mind to get a replacement for his new studfarm HARAS DE HUS. POETIN's clone was born on March 30th, 2007. This illustrates how cloning can be used to prevent exceptional genetics from being lost!