Embryo Transfer
Once considered very “high-tech”, embryo transfer is increasingly
commonplace as a way to get a foal from a competition mare without
interrupting her competition schedule.
The process allows breeders to select not only the sire’s attributes for
their foal by purchasing semen, but the genetic attributes of any one of our
select mares may be chosen. Our broodmare is inseminated and the embryo
implanted (at six days of age) into a recipient mare who will carry the foal
to term.
This process also allows us to send breeders recipient mares in foal to the
combination of their choosing. The recipient selected may be a competition
horse in its own right, or a broodmare prospect. The recipient is then
shipped (after sixty days pregnancy) to the breeder. In this way, the
breeder has the advantage of selecting from a variety of dam and sire
bloodlines and acquiring a recipient who may also have a career.
Undoubtedly, there is an economic advantage to travelling recipient mares in
that two horses travel for the price of one!
See our broodmare list for details.
