Lawyer Says Stored Semen Would Threaten Horseracing’s Appeal
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Allowing artificial breeding of racehorses would threaten traditions behind the sport’s appeal to kings, queens, sheikhs and billionaires, said a lawyer opposing an effort to lift a ban on artificial insemination.
Tony Bannon, attorney for the Sydney Turf Club, went before Sydney Federal Court today to defend the club’s rule that requires racing thoroughbreds to be the offspring of two horses that physically mated.