May 24, 2006 6:18 PM

Cloned Mules Race in Nevada

Paul Elias, my favorite AP reporter, has written a story about two clones mules that will race normal ones in Nevada. In a low-stakes mule race in a remote corner of the West, nature versus nurture will be put to the test as two of the horse family’s earliest clones challenge naturally bred runners next […]

Paul Elias, my favorite AP reporter, has written a story about two clones mules that will race normal ones in Nevada.

In a low-stakes mule race in a remote corner of the West, nature versus nurture will be put to the test as two of the horse family's earliest clones challenge naturally bred runners next month in Nevada.
It's not exactly the Kentucky Derby, but two cloned mules named Idaho Star and Idaho Gem will compete in a professional mule race in Winnemucca, Nev., where the professional mule racing season begins.
Idaho Star was the first animal from the horse family cloned and his brother, Idaho Gem, was the third. Both were born three years ago and carry identical DNA taken from a fetus produced by the same parents that sired a champion mule racer named Taz.

Will cloned mules be faster than naturally bred mules? I'm on the edge of my seat.

Idaho Gem, the first cloned mule.

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