Cloned animals are moving out of the lab and onto the polo field! A champion polo horse was cloned as a way of preserving his athletic ability. Did it work? Trace has the answer.

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Can you steal a few hairs from a racehorse and clone your own?
http://science.howstuffworks.com/life...
"Has a witch ever stolen a piece of your hair and used it to put a hex on you? Probably not."

Cloned Horse Wins Argentine Polo Open
http://www.popsci.com/article/science...
"Polo star Adolfo Cambiaso helped his team win the Argentine National Open this weekend, scoring nine goals in the 16-11 match. Two of those he scored atop a horse named Show Me-a clone, and the first to ride onto the Argentine pitch, the Calgary Herald reports."

Cloney ponies
http://www.economist.com/news/busines...
"IMAGINE a football match pitting 11 clones of Wayne Rooney against 11 more clones of the same spud-faced Manchester United striker."

A leap into the unknown: Cloned eventing horse Tamarillo is groomed for success
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci...
"To the layperson, Tamarillo probably looks like any other horse; but not to aficionados of eventing, the mixed equestrian discipline that requires competitors to show an extraordinary blend of courage, discipline and grace."
Cloned Beef: It's What's For Dinner
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article...
"What if you could carve off a chunk of the most succulent slab of steak you´ve ever eaten, clone a bull from it, then produce weeks of identically delectable dinners? Irina Polejaeva, chief embryologist at ViaGen, a livestock-cloning lab in Austin, Texas, aims to bring cloned beef to the American dinner table within the next few years."

In Korea, Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs Report for Duty
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article...
"If you find an individual with exceptional talent, why not clone it? That's an idea that may no longer be confined to the realm of science fiction, at least for dogs. South Korea's customs service has now deployed the world's first cloned sniffer puppies for hunting smuggled drugs."

History Of Cloning
http://library.thinkquest.org/20830/F...
"It seems that every week, newspapers report on new advances in the science of cloning. Everybody knows about Dolly the cloned sheep, but few people know all the details about cloning, including the fact that scientists have been working on it for over 100 years."

The first cloned animals were cloned over a century ago
http://io9.com/5924113/the-first-clon...
"Dolly the sheep comes to mind when we think of cloned animals. She was made famous as the "cloned sheep" made in the 1990s."

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