The ruling came down yesterday or today.
The next basis of attack will be on horse welfare grounds, not economics.
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As a follow up to the ruling the Thoroughbred Daily News published an article titled "AI A Positive For Standardbred Industry.
The article makes the following points:
The Thoroughbred is the only major breed in the world that does not allow conception by artificial insemination.
Harness racing in the U.S. began allowing AI in the late in 1950s. There was a legal action brought against it by the United States Trotting Association, and they lost.
AI is easier on the stallion, enabling him to breed up to 15 mares from one collection. It enables breeders to keep their mares home and breed the stallions of their choice. And it's safer for both the horses and the people who work with them.
I don't see how any thoughtful person can disagree that it seems primitive in this modern age to risk putting a mare and foal on a truck and waste gas and time to drive her someplace to get bred, when we have the technology to get the semen from here to there lightning quick.
Two questions occur to me.
1. Why wouldn't the result of the legal action brought by the US Trotting Association stand as precedent should the the Jockey Club pursue a similar suit?
2. How can the Thoroughbred industry be united against AI when its support for every other issue it faces is so self-defeatingly fragmented?
The article makes the following points:
The Thoroughbred is the only major breed in the world that does not allow conception by artificial insemination.
Harness racing in the U.S. began allowing AI in the late in 1950s. There was a legal action brought against it by the United States Trotting Association, and they lost.
AI is easier on the stallion, enabling him to breed up to 15 mares from one collection. It enables breeders to keep their mares home and breed the stallions of their choice. And it's safer for both the horses and the people who work with them.
I don't see how any thoughtful person can disagree that it seems primitive in this modern age to risk putting a mare and foal on a truck and waste gas and time to drive her someplace to get bred, when we have the technology to get the semen from here to there lightning quick.
Two questions occur to me.
1. Why wouldn't the result of the legal action brought by the US Trotting Association stand as precedent should the the Jockey Club pursue a similar suit?
2. How can the Thoroughbred industry be united against AI when its support for every other issue it faces is so self-defeatingly fragmented?
Last edited by Patuxet on Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Patuxet wrote:How can the Thoroughbred industry be united against AI when its support for every other issue it faces is so self-defeatingly fragmented?
Perhaps because many people within the industry would prefer that the registry not be legally forced to accept foals conceived via other forms of assisted reproduction, such as embryo transfer, which is what happened to the AQHA.
