Gemini, The First Clone of Gem Twist
In early 2006, Practical Horseman magazine first leaked a report that Gem Twist was to be the subject of a cloning experiment by a then-undisclosed international laboratory.
On September 15, 2008, the French genetic bank, Cryozootech, announced the successful birth of a healthy clone of Gem Twist. As was Gem Twist, the foal was born bay, with a star, and sock on his right front, and is expected to dapple or grey-out in relative short order.
Gemini, at 10 months, was moved from the Chapot family's Chado Farm in Texas to Frank Chapot's Neshanic Station farm in New Jersey. Gemini is showing his Gem Twist lineage, he's beginning to become a grey, as his coat shows flecks of white hair, and jumps fences over 3 feet high.
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