With embryo transfer technology, an aging champion is able to produce one more foal. Rox Dene was a superstar in every sense of the word. During the 1990s, the dappled gray Dutch warmblood mare won countless hunter/jumper championships at major showsacross the country, and she received the United States Equestrian Federation's National Horse of the Year honors from 1991 to 1995. By 1996, however, Rox Dene's competitive career was winding down. So her owners, Elaine and Chanda Boylen, decided it wastime to see whether she could pass some of her magic along to offspring. The Boylens opted for embryo transfer, then a relatively new technology in which a mare is inseminated and the resulting embryo is "flushed" from her uterus and transferred into a surrogate mare for gestation and delivery.
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