{"id":13929,"date":"2025-07-13T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:51:18","slug":"cloning-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/13\/cloning-ponies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloning Ponies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cloning-came-to-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player\u2019s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/author\/matt-reynolds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MATT REYNOLDS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wimSfSYXkoU\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE HORSES ARE<\/strong>&nbsp;slick with sweat, veins bulging, feet dancing through a maelstrom of legs and mallets and flying clods of earth, 6,000 pounds of flesh tumbling after a tiny white ball. The riders are all furious angles, jabbing their mallets blindly beneath their saddles. But Adolfo Cambiaso appears calm. He lifts a gloved hand and swings the head of his mallet in a perfect arc through the tangle of horse and human to thwack the ball and send it clear toward the goal. It\u2019s the final game of the 2016 Argentine Open\u2014the most important polo match of the year in the most polo-obsessed country in the world\u2014and there are some 30,000 spectators in the stands, all watching Cambiaso\u2019s every move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on who you ask, Cambiaso might be described as a horse whisperer, a sex symbol, or a marvel of longevity. And it\u2019s all true: At 41 he\u2019s easily the oldest player on this field, his handsome face and cleft chin sun-beaten and stubbled, his dark hair matted with sweat. But the more universally accepted fact is that Cambiaso is the greatest polo player alive\u2014top ranked for some two decades\u2014if not the greatest who has ever lived. As if that weren\u2019t enough, he\u2019s also a horse breeding tycoon who is, on this very field, in this very game, transforming polo from the sport of kings into a frontier laboratory of applied biotechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/cloning-came-to-polo-things-got-uncivilized-cambiaso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WIRED<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player\u2019s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal. by MATT REYNOLDS THE HORSES ARE&nbsp;slick with sweat, veins bulging, feet dancing through a maelstrom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}