British Breeder Magazine December 2021

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News Arko III Clone is Born The birth of a clone to international show jumping legend, Arko III, was announced in August. The Arko clone is the combined efforts of UK based genetic preservation company, Gemini Genetics, and their partner and world leader in animal cloning, ViaGen Pets and Equine. Arko’s clone will enable his legacy to continue after his sad passing earlier this year. By the world famous Argentinus, out of Unika, Arko III was the Number 1 Showjumper in Europe in 2004, 2005 and 2006. His earnings are over £1,2M and in addition to his impressive show jumping achievements, he is also the sire of many world class horses including stallions Argento and Aristio. Arko’s owners, Pat, John and Lisa Hales of Shaw Farm stud, commented ‘it was an extremely sad day for our family when we lost Arko, he was truly a horse of a life time. The birth of his clone was very emotional. We believe it is not only exciting for our sport worldwide but especially for the future of Great British breeding for years to come. We look forward to breeding many more champions from this wonderful bloodline.’ The Hales family are internationally renowned for their successes with Arko III and his influence on equine sport and breeding. They have been awarded numerous accolades over Arko III’s career while Arko himself was crowned British Equestrian Showjumper of the Year on an unprecedented five occasions. Arko’s clone was generated from a small skin sample from Arko original that was genetically preserved by UK based genetic preservation company, Gemini Genetics. Founded and sister company to world leading equine semen collection and distribution centre, Stallion AI Services, Gemini Genetics is a newly established animal genetic preservation company, specialised in regenerative genetic banking and partnered with US based cloning company, ViaGen Pets & Equine. Lucy Morgan, manager of Gemini Genetics, undertook the preservation. ‘We are thrilled at the successful birth of Arko’s clone. A much-loved stallion in terms of his outstanding performances and his unique and full of life character, it is brilliant to have enabled his cloning so that his outstanding legacy can continue. Gemini Genetics are thrilled and highly privileged to have facilitated this amazing revival of Arko III via his genetic twin’. 4 | BRITISH BREEDER Arko at the 2004 Athens Olympics Genetic preservation and cloning can enable the revival of once in a lifetime horses and other performance animals, in addition to breeding from geldings and preservation and regeneration of females. Other famous horses to have been cloned include Cruising, gelding Gem Twist and eventing stallion Chilli Morning. The technology can also be used to support rare breed populations as well as being available for cat and dog owners. Once preserved by Gemini Genetics, the valuable tissue sample was shipped to their partner cloning company, ViaGen Pets & Equine, who completed the cloning process. Blake Russell, president of ViaGen Pets & Equine, commented, “Here at ViaGen Pets and Equine, each project is truly special. Over the last 15 years of bringing our technology to clients around the world, we have enjoyed an amazing opportunity to share each special journey with our clients. With more than a thousand healthy, cloned foals delivered to clients now, each foal represents a unique story, and each project brings unbelievable joy and enthusiasm.’ For further information on genetic preservation and cloning, visit Gemini Genetics via www.gemingenetics.com ; in association with ViaGen Pets & Equine https://www.viagenpets.com and the charity Nature’s SAFE, https://www.natures-safe.com BD Announced the passing of Linda Whetstone and New Interim Chair As we go to press we learned of the sudden passing of British Dressage Chairman, Linda Whetstone, on 15 December 2021 at the age of 79. An obituary will appear in our next issue. Our thoughts and prayers are with Linda’s family and friends. The British Dressage Board of Directors convened for an emergency virtual meeting this morning following the news. The Board collectively expressed their sadness at the news, conveying their condolences to Linda’s family and friends, while paying their personal respects and tributes to Linda to mark the extraordinary contribution she made to the sport. Directors discussed options for the position of Chairman on an interim basis, and agreed a short-term appointment should be made from within the Board to cover the role during the first half of 2022. BD Finance Director Caroline Godfrey was unanimously voted into the role of Interim Chairman with immediate effect, on the basis that this would be a temporary arrangement only to allow sufficient time for a permanent successor to be elected by members. The late Linda Whetstone Chair of BD BD Interim Chair Caroline Godfrey
News BD Lead the Way with CED Registration Rule British Dressage (BD) is encouraging its members, as responsible horse owners, to help ensure greater data accuracy, traceability and biosecurity of the national equine herd by making sure their equines are listed on the Central Equine Database as a requirement of BD horse registration process from 1 January 2022. It is a requirement by law that all equines living in the UK are registered on the CED, which currently contains over 1.5 million records. The CED is designed to protect all British equines and their owners by providing the national core data that underpins essential services, such as equine lifetime traceability, biosecurity, disease surveillance and control, food chain security, animal welfare, fraud prevention and border security. Owners and riders can check if their horses are already listed by using the National ChipChecker - if your horse appears when searched, it's got a record. Most horses with a UK passport and microchip should be listed as the PIO will have passed the info over to the CED. BD are also strongly recommending that members sign up to Equine Register’s Digital Stable to facilitate this process and ensure your records are correct and up to date. This also helps to provide more effective traceability and bio-security measures to protect horse welfare. The Digital Stable provides a secure link to the Central Equine Database (CED), supplied and managed by the Equine Register on behalf of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Members will be able to create their ‘Digital Stable’, which will show the data held on the CED about them and all the horses officially recorded as being owned by them. As well as the data held, the Digital Stable enables users to record the location of their owned equines and their vaccination status (both current and historic). This information supports traceability and biosecurity protecting you and your horses from infectious diseases through live targeted national disease alerts that are relevant. To get started, members simply need to create a free account online. For user safety, this process requires verification of identity, using the same state-of-theart secure digital verification systems used by banks, governments and the NHS. This protects the users and their equine data from criminals who might try to impersonate them online to make fraudulent claims. The secure ID verification process only happens once as part of the registration process. Please note that this data is only used to verify your identity and as soon as the process is completed, the information supplied is deleted and not stored. Once sign up with the Digital Stable has been completed, users will be invited to download the free Digital Stable App to your mobile phone, where owned equine information will be automatically available as a secure online record, referred to as ‘digital passport/ smartcard’. This Smartcard can then be checked at BD venues and events to underpin biosecurity and help protect competitors and their equines when they compete. The need for accurate national data was highlighted by the Equine Influenza outbreak in 2019, which affected so many BD competitions, as well as the Equine Herpes outbreak in Europe earlier this year. The use of Equine Register’s systems by BD Members will help keep BD competitions, competitors and equines safe and play an important role in the protection of all UK equines. British Dressage’s Chief Executive Jason Brautigam commented; “Creating an alliance with the Central Equestrian Database and Equine Register as been one of our aims since it was first launched. In leading the way with requiring registration, BD is acting in the best interests of the national herd, as well as keeping members and their horses safe, while helping them to fulfil their legal obligations as horse owners. The requirement is in place from the New Year, although there will be a gradual phasing in over the course of 2022 to allow members sufficient time to adapt to the new process. It’s quick and easy to get started and already being used by horse owners across the UK. Thank you to members for embracing this additional requirement, you’re helping to be a trailblazer on this important step in equine welfare.” Time to check Transporter Authorisations The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) is reminding all animal transporters to check the expiry date of their current transporter authorisation and apply for renewal at the earliest possible opportunity, to ensure continued authorisation. Transporter authorisations are valid for 5 years, and a significant number are due for renewal in 2022. UK transporter authorisations are required for those transporting animals, as part of an economic activity, on journeys over 65km within, from, to and through GB. Transporter authorisations apply to, amongst others, those who move horses within Great Britain in connection with professional riding, livery and stabling. They also apply to those moving horses for the purposes of animal rescue and/or charities. There are two types of transporter authorisation; Type 1 (short journey) which are required for journeys over 65km and up to 8 hours in duration and Type 2 (long journey) which are required for those transporting animals for journeys over 8 hours. In order to comply with current welfare in transport regulations, animal transporters must submit an application to renew their authorisation. Failure to do so risks heavy penalties if transporters are found to be operating without valid authorisation. Renewal application packs are available from APHA’s Welfare in Transport team, who are also available to discuss any queries or for details of how to apply for a UK issued transporter authorisation. Further information on Transporter Authorisations can be found on GOV.UK. BRITISH BREEDER| 5
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