No, it’s not a typo. Lot #5139 in the 2007 NCHA Futurity Sales catalog really is a yearling Doc Bar daughter. She is also the first genetically identical equine (clone) to be offered for sale at public auction.<\/p>\n
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Doc\u2019s Serendipity DNA, a sorrel filly foaled in 2006, is documented with the National DNA Registry as sired by Doc Bar and out of Biltoft\u2019s Poco. That makes her a full sister to Doc\u2019s Serendipity (pictured), who was ridden by Joe Heim as reserve champion to Peppy San Badger in the 1977 NCHA Futurity.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is a clone, but we prefer to be professional and call her a genetic twin, instead of using the slang term of \u2018clone,\u2019\u201d said Jim Ware of Western Bloodstock, the company that produces all of the National Cutting Horse Association\u2019s sales. \u201cShe has the same genetic makeup as the other great mare, but we\u2019re promoting her on her own merits. To promote her otherwise is to take away from her and from Doc\u2019s Serendipity.”<\/p>\n
Lane Easter DVM, of Performance Equine in Gainesville, Texas, owns Doc\u2019s Serendipity. The embryo that resulted in Doc\u2019s Serendipity DNA was created in 2005 by Texas A&M University and implanted into a recipient mare at Performance Equine. This is the same team that created and produced five Smart Little Lena clones that were also foaled in 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing that\u2019s been different about having her in the sale is that we had to instruct the pedigree research company on how to present her in the sale catalog,\u201d Ware noted. \u201cEverything else has been handled just the same way we would handle any other well-bred yearling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The filly’s genetic sire, Doc Bar, who died in 1992, is the all-time leading paternal sire of cutting horses and a cornerstone of working Quarter Horse pedigrees.<\/p>\n
Under current rules, Doc\u2019s Serendipity DNA is eligible to be shown in NCHA events, where the offspring of her identical twin have earned $295,000. Her foals will also be eligible for enrollment with the National DNA Registry and can be shown in NCHA events under current rules.<\/p>\n
Doc\u2019s Serendipity DNA sells on Thursday, December 13, in the NCHA Preferred Breeder\u2019s Sale. Check back here tomorrow for other news related to the NCHA Futurity Sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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