I know there have been a lot of problems with the ownership of these clones since before they were even on the ground, so it kind of makes sense to just be done with it all, but it still makes me a little sad. .hs-error-msg{color: #29353d} I've dealt with my fair share of Doc Olena bred horses. These particles can tell us, My Everest review: A horseback journey to the world's highest mountain, Pathogenesis review: How infectious diseases have moulded civilisation, The shocking decline of Earths microbiome and how to save it, JWST has spotted the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen. This efficiency is certainly impressive, says William Allen, director of the Equine Fertility Unit in Newmarket, UK. The syndicate members were awarded $447,500.00 ($310,000 going to attorney's fees). He had his ears thrown forward, watching everything. Support AQHA Youth and Young Adult Programs, Professional Horsemen's Crisis Assistance Application, Professional Horsemens Application for Crisis Assistance, Hall of Fame Induction and Reunion Celebration. Would suit a intermediate rider. Smooth Talkin Style 2011 sorrel (Smooth As A Cat-Stylish Play Lena by Docs Stylish Oak) Offspring Earnings: $1,324,912 VIEW ON QSTALLIONS.COM 7. ABC | Privacy Policy. He said the introduction of these genetics to Australia through Salute who is one of five clones of Smart Little Lena would offer tremendous opportunities to the Australian performance horse industry. The tiny stallions fighting legacy lives on. Judge John Board, who presided over the case, was made aware of the conflicts within the syndicate, and ordered a mutually agreed upon third co-manager to work with co-managers Hanes Chatham and Bill Freeman. This is Straight, The oldest and one of the most famous quadrigas in, It's been a snowy 2022! Smart Little Lena was foaled June 29, 1979. The stallion and Freeman won the 1982 NCHA Futurity and then went on to top the 1983 NCHA Super Stakes and NCHA Derby, along with the 1984 The Masters Cutting. Smart Little Lena was euthanized in 2010, but that wasnt the end. After 60 days, Chatham offered Bill Freeman half interest in Little Lena. Smart Little Lena's speciality is "cutting" - a cowboy-style competition that involves splitting cattle off from a herd. Richard Bull, of Tamarang stud, Tamworth, bought Salute at the Western Bloodstock Annual National Cutting Horse Assoc-iation (NCHA) Futurity Sale in Fort Worth, Texas, last December. The sorrel stallion never let his size stop him, though, as he won the 1982 National Cutting Horse Association Futurity and. Follow us - we follow back! Unable for registration due to the stallion being a clone. But losing two foals at birth is worrying, he says, since it had seemed as if cloned horses dont suffer the fetal abnormalities still plaguing cloning efforts in other species. Smart Little Lena (June 29, 1979-August 30, 2010) was an AQHA registered Quarter Horse, an NCHA Triple Crown Champion cutting horse, and sire of champion cutting horses. One of the five died at the age of 4 from bladder cancer. Below are the baby pictures of his five cloned offspring. This is an archive of the previous Landline site. The remaining four stallions were sold by the syndicate that owned them at the 2009 NCHA World Finals sale. The above jpeg links to to a pay site article at Nature Biotechnology entitled Nuclear Transfer Saddles Up, that I just know for sure you are are going to want to read over and over again. The worlds first horse to be cloned was Haflinger mare, Promotea, in Cremona, Italy, in 2003. .hs-button{background-color: #6284a9; border-radius: 3px;} Another setback for takeover target United Malt as beer sales go flat, Silicon start-up with a difference turns wine bottles into fertiliser, Why 'old school' soil bugs are ag's carbon-friendly new frontier, Agribusiness buzz in brief: Rex, Pace Farms and Feed Central news, SunRice picks US food boss as new managing director, Food inflation peak passes, but prices still well above average, Terms and Conditions - Digital Subscription, Terms and Conditions - Newspaper Subscription. As hes a stallion, we just want to get him broken to make him easier to manage, Mr Bull said. I was excited to see how she would be received, and made my plane reservations to make sure I was there to see it. He found the mare he was looking for, Smart Peppy, in Canada and bought her over the phone for $20,000, a steep price for the 1970s. Flynn Stewart tells his story of the conspiracy of Smart Little Lena's training. Sons Smart Chic Olena and Very Smart Remedy are forces in the cow horse industry siring more than $3 million and $2 million in that discipline respectively. Tell me how your day has gone as crazy as mine has, or tell me to cowboy up, or tell me to shut up--your call! In NRHA competition, they earned $1.8 million; in NRCHA competition, they earned $2.56 million; and in NCHA, they earned $50 million. I went looking around for a coherent discussion regarding the ethics of all of this .. never found it. Access unlimited content and the digital versions of our print editions - This Week's Paper. The presiding judge also ordered a meeting of the syndicate shareholders to be held as part of the settlement dispute.[6]. New Beginnings: A year on from Merseylea's devastating floods, Cow Hearts: Queensland cattle are saving lives, Vinegar Dreams : From tractor shed to multi-million dollar factory, Growing Controversy: The controversy around growing food on suburban footpaths, Got You Covered: Super-sheds protecting high-value horticultural crops. I don't know he looks like a good guy. That same year the worlds first commercially cloned horses were born in Oklahoma copies of top Quarter Horse cutting mares Royal Blue Boon, Tap O Lena, and Playboys Ruby. Most #IcelandicHorses can perfor, Is that Nikita #Khrushchev with an Arabian stallio. If Freeman has his way, the others will not compete but spend their lives as studs, passing on Smart Little Lenas unique set of genes to future generations. You can read more about this websites Privacy Policy . All four other clones, he added, are healthy and produce viable semen.Indeed, its this ability to pass on Smart Little Lenas genes that buyers might find attractive about these horses. The stallion, Salute, is an exact genetic copy of the worlds most influential performance horse sire, Smart Little Lena, and arrived three weeks ago. Thank you Paige, as one who cannot attend these big dos, I'm grateful for your pictures and stories. He later won first in both the NCHA Super Stakes and Derby as well. In the National Reining Horse Association competition, his foals earned $686,470. At the same time, Chatham admired the horse Royal Santana for his low, smooth movement in the cutting pen. Is it like silver dapple? region: "na1", Chestnut/roan. After earning $577,652 in just eight shows, Smart Little Lena was retired to the breeding shed. They offer a different approach that might be useful to people working on other species.. Smart Little Lenas progeny have traversed disciples to show their sires versatility. Terms & Conditions, Clay Volmer & Ricato Suave Win NRHCA Eastern Derby, Debbie Crafton Rides Ultimate Teammate to NRCHA Eastern Derby Win. "But Chic is incredibly intuitive. Smart Little Lena (clone) x Dual Rey Biscuit Info in pictures. In the National Reining Horse Association competition, his foals earned $686,470. Expecting similar odds, she and her colleagues transferred 13 embryos cloned with DNA from Smart Little Lena into surrogate mares. TAMWORTH is the new home for Australias first cloned horse. I think with size in ET offspring, there should actually be some credit given to the recipient mare. 2016 JustThinking.us All rights reserved worldwide. He acted like a colt that had been ridden 30 days, Chatham said. With a total of $57 million of foal earnings, he is first place as the leading maternal grandsire. 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Sons Smart Chic Olena and Very Smart Remedy are forces in the cow horse industry siring more than $3 million and $2 million in that discipline respectively. Other clones with money-earning progeny include Royal Blue Two, a clone of the great Royal Blue Boon, who has five earners totaling $64,000. They went for $2400, $3000, $27,000 and $28,000. There were a lot of those horses that never even got broke because nobody had the courage to get on them. [10], Due to his earnings of over $39 million, Smart Little Lena is in second place for all-time cutting horse sires. This site is no longer updated but you can find the new Landline site here, Biography updated as of March 2015. As a sire, Smart Little Lena was outstanding, with money-earning foals in every performance discipline. .hbspt-form{margin-top: 35px;} He was sired by NCHA Futurity Champion Doc O'Lena and out of the mare Smart Peppy by Peppy San, who was the first NCHA World Champion to sire an NCHA World Champion. He watched the cow naturally, even stopping and drawing from the beginning.. Jan 28, 2014. Four of these colts will be sold as four year olds at this year's NCHA futurity sale. .hs-email{max-width: 100% !important; width: 100%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: bottom;} She also injected the donor nuclei into the oocytes using a vibrating needle to penetrate the egg membrane, and activated the resulting cell by injecting a sperm extract to simulate fertilisation. [7][8][9] He was also a National Reined Cow Horse Association (NRCHA) $1 Million Dollar Sire in 2011. This page was last edited on 26 July 2022, at 12:18. The cloned stallions of Pierez, ET and Gem Twist all have foals on the ground. In 1983, Smart Little Lena won the NCHA Super Stakes and NCHA Derby [Summer Spectacular], securing the NCHA Triple Crown Title with Bill Freeman. As a sire, Smart Little Lena was outstanding, with money-earning foals in every performance discipline. One clone passed away due to complications of a cancerous tumor, according to Bankston. [6] As a breeding stallion, Smart Little Lena spent his life at Manion Ranch in Pilot Point, TX under the supervision of Quarter Horse trainer and breeder Tommy Manion. When Smart Little Lena was foaled, his name came from his small size. Smart Little Lena was foaled June 29, 1979. Lil Miss Smarty Chex was inducted into the NRCHA Hall of Fame in 2012. } Image created by justthinking.us, Your email address will not be published. In AQHA competition, his offspring earned 9,744.5 points and 22 world championships, along with $216,387. . Aside from the fact that all of this stuff just causes me to marvel, I really don't even know what I think about it. [4], In 1982 Smart Little Lena won the National Cutting Horse Association (NCHA) Futurity. h, quarter horse, 1979 smart little lena* sor 13.3 1979 quarter horse #1565822. doc olena* b 1967 quarter horse #0493297. doc bar* ch 14.2 1956 quarter horse #0076136. lightning bar* sor 1951 quarter horse #0037566. three bars* ch 15.3 1940: percentage: ch 1923: myrtle dee* blk 1923: della p* ch 1934 . smart little lena sor. "Sally Harrison's Blog Blog Archive Smart Little Lena's legacy", "Smart Little Lena - $1 Million Dollar Sire", "Legendary cutting horse Smart Little Lena dies at 31 | Horsetalk.co.nz - International horse news", "SMART LITTLE LENA SETTLEMENT DOCUMENTS SIGNED", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Smart_Little_Lena&oldid=1100536290, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Kit Kat Sugar .actions{margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px;} Take one prize-winning stallion thats getting on in years and produce a herd of identical clones to carry on his legacy to the next generation. The worlds first cloned horse was born in Italy way back in 2003 a Haflinger mare that was named Prometea. In 2006, 51 shareholders owning a total of 80 shares comprised the syndicate. They offered to back her research on the understanding that should a clone emerge it would be theirs to keep. .hs-submit{display: inline-block; color: white;} Horses dont need to be registered for cutting so its not a huge issue for us.. Mike Kelley, a former NCHA Executive Director, was selected. It offers some conversation about genetics vs. environment that's not very tough reading. At the 2014 NCHA Futurity, 23 of the 25 open finalists including the winner carried the fighting blood of Smart Little Lena with them into the pen for their own duels in the dirt. [6] Smart Little Lena was the first cutting horse stallion to be syndicated prior to ever being shown. "Intelligence is sometimes hard to measure in a horse," she says. Four clones of Smart Little Lena have been consigned to the National Cutting Horse Association Futurity sale, according to Smart Little Lena Clone Co-Manager Jimmy Bankston. Chatham found Smart Peppy in Canada, the full sister to Royal Santana that he had been seeking, and bought her over the telephone. For the surviving clones, their owners have yet to decide what to do with them, although three of them may be sold abroad. These here gears here links to an article about a cloned daughter of Docs Serendipity, another great champion cutting horse. I overheard Dr. Bourke talking about cloned horses the other day. In NRHA competition, they earned $1.8 million; in NRCHA competition, they earned $2.56 million; and in NCHA, they earned $50 million. At the time, the stallion was looking phenomenal, according to Chatham. However, it could be the ultimate experiment in nature vs. nurture, couldn't it? formId: "d01f22bb-5b4c-4eb3-9a24-219a6869b198" The horses being cloned are all from the top ranks of their disciplines, so it would be difficult for the clones to perform as well as the original, let alone surpass or improve on their achievements. 1077, SMART CLASSIC CD (U), 2020 stallion, (Patroan x Smart Look Classic (Clone) x Smart Little Lena), Hill Ranches, Daniel Gorrell, $3,500 1078, BOONS DIAMOND LADY, 2020 stallion, ( Once In A Blu Boon x Shiners Diamond Lady x Shining Spark), Wagonhound Land & Livestock, LLC, RNA ($22,000) He has also sired hundreds of foals, which together have won more than $36 million. written by QHN Staff (John Brasseaux photo). Bred by Richard Bull in Tamworth. He fathered approximately 2,300 registered foals (Quarter Horse and Paint and half earned money. This led to nine pregnancies. [14] On October 20, 2008, the case in Amarillo's 181st District Court was dismissed with prejudice against future lawsuits or claims of wrongful death. In the NCHA they have won over $50 million dollars. I got the idea that if I could find a full sister to Royal Santana and breed her to Doc OLena, and if those genes stacked up anywhere like the sire and the dam, I might get a triple crown-caliber horse. Smart Little Lena (June 29, 1979August 30, 2010) was an AQHA registered Quarter Horse, an NCHA Triple Crown Champion cutting horse, and sire of champion cutting horses. Hes been such a great sire, and there is only one mare in Australia by him. Venom gives thought provoking thoughts to the whole idea of cloning in her first paragraph.Horse Student says---you have been 'teaching' me a horse is a 'pet' and therefore displays 'human qualities"----so-------time will tell.enjoy the weekend----carol. If the SLL-lite versions are not brought up well and trained expertly with attention to all detail, the end result could be paler imposters not worth having. As of 2010, he still held the record for most money earned as a 3- and 4-year-old cutter at $643,275. Consigned to Western Bloodstock NCHA Futurity Sale Dec. 3-8, 2018 1877 Mineral Wells Hwy, Weatherford, TX 76088, office: 817.594.9100 fax: 817.596.5770 email:hospital@weatherfordequine.com, 6375 Mineral Wells Hwy, Weatherford, TX 76088, office: 817.594.9100 fax: 817.596.5770 email:breeding@weatherfordequine.com, SPORTS MEDICINEPRE-PURCHASESURGERYINTERNAL MEDICINE, 2021 STALLION ROSTERFULL SERVICE STALLIONFULL SERVICE MARERECIPIENTS, DENTISTRY Dual Smart Rey 2002 sorrel (Dual Rey-The Smart Look by Smart Little Lena) Offspring Earnings: $1,169,861 VIEW ON QSTALLIONS.COM 8. [1], His offspring have earned $1,033,534,.03 in NRCHA competition. And with the cost of cloning a horse being $150,000, the elite genetics came cheap. What horse breeds carry the silver dapple gene? Character and personality, at least to some degree, are shaped by experience, opportunity, and training. Two Smart Little Lena's sons, Smart Chic Olena and Very Smart Remedy are also NRCHA $1 Million Sires. I personally like #4, Dave .. seriously, Dave.