In January 2009 E.T.CRYOZOOTECH-STALLION ‘semen was collected for the first time. In spite of his young age,his semen proved fertile and a first mare was bred as an assesment. She is now pregnant of 40 days.
More recently he received stallion approval by studbook Zangersheide which allows him insemination with registration of his offspring. AES studbook followed rapidly and also approved him as a stallion. Other studbooks might follow later . The rule in Europe is that a horse can be registered in only one studbook, which defines his breed affiliation, but a horse can be approved as a stallion by several studbooks which want to introduce his genes is the blood lines of the breed.
According to geneticists, it is important to keep the generation interval as short as possible and the performance of his model already qualified is genes. This is why he should be used as a stallion as soon as possible and not participate in competition. This decision is an evidence that the target of Cryozootech is genetics rather than producing phenotypic copy of champions.
E.T.CRYOZOOTECH-STALLION, 30 months old, becomes a stallion. He will be the first recognised cloned stallion in the area of show jumping.
The first sport horse to be cloned,, E.T. FRH was the world best show jumper of years 1995 à 2000 ridden by Hugo Simon. Showing an exceptionnal agility,He won the highest jumping competition always with tremendous speed.
In order to prevent overuse and fatigue of this very young stallion, only a small number of mares will be inseminated on the farm where he will be accomodated: the Horse Embryo Trransfer facility of AMELIS-EQUITECHNIC at CORBON (F14340). He will be under technical responsability of Marc SPALART, (Tel +33 2 33 67 80 70, GSM +33 6 14 17 11 90, email spalart@equitechnic.com). He is too young to have a stock of frozen semen and in order to save his semen insemination will be performed immediatly, without transport.
A small number of high quality mares will be selected in addition to those of share owners in order to see a good sample of his offspring as soon as his first generation.