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okay depending on the stallion horse
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semen is one of the most expensive
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liquids on the planet thinking about it
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thinking about it again starting to draw
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yeah okay to wash that good boy okay
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grab that Iranian soldier toy there
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so we collected about 80 mils and this
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is going to be worth in excess of
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$100,000 that means that a gallon of
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this horses semen is worth four point
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seven million dollars and that's no way
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near the most expensive once it's
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collected horse semen can be separated
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and sold in small tubes called straws
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one of these straws is worth about
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$1,200 were putting about a hundred and
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fifty million two hundred million sperm
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cells in each individual straw they
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start producing about 60 or 70 of them
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here super fertile stallions like big
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star can ejaculate once a day
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theoretically this means he could
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produce over 20 million dollars worth of
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semen during an eight month stud season
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and if a stallion semen is high quality
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it can be frozen in straws for future
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use so in this room is the heart of
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really stallion AI services this rooms
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built like actually a nuclear bunker in
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here this is where all the semen is now
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kept we've got hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of straws in here we've got
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over 1,200 different stallions so in
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here stored at minus 196 degrees is
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hundreds of millions of dollars worth of
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semen ready to be used to inseminate
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mares in the horse breeding world
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genetics is king wealthy investors are
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willing to pay high prices for proven
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winners semen hoping that the resulting
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foal provides a large return on
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investment big star is one of the most
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prolific show jumpers of all time he's a
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double gold medal-winning stallion which
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there's very few of them out there he's
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got the perfect genetics ready to go on
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show jumping so you mix that with
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another genetic line on the female side
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and cross those two together you can pay
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a twelve hundred dollars for a single
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straw you can have a foal and maybe
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three or four years later you can sell
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that fall for sometimes a hundred
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thousand dollars I mean big sales cases
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hit those bells he had the highest price
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fall in the UK and that sold for an
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excess of a hundred thousand dollars
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even though most stud farms offer
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guarantees on producing a live foal
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commercial and competitive success is
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still a gamble even with strong genetics
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in fact the bloodline of all stallion
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horses is closer than you might think
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according to an international team of
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scientists who studied the Y chromosomes
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of 52 horses from 21 breeds practically
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all modern horses descended from just a
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few original stallions from carriage
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horses hauling tourists in the streets
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right through to champion racehorses
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like Galileo the world's most expensive
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SIA even more surprisingly 95% of all
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Thoroughbred racehorses like him can be
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traced back to just a handful of
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ancestors who were all linked to one
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single super stud the Darley Arabian
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born in 1700 but the value of
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thoroughbred semen is a little harder to
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quantify since breeding must occur
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naturally for racehorses the sport horse
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world were very lucky we can use
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artificial insemination to breed our
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mares with as opposed to thoroughbred
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everything's gotta be done naturally
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they've got to literally cover the man
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actually they're concerned with our gene
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pool if they will allow AI into the
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thoroughbred world it would mean the
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dream pool was shrimp because one horse
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could then cover thousands of mares and
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anyone wishing to naturally cover their
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mare with Galileo needs serious
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financial backing even though his price
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is listed as private it's widely
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reported that his stud fee sits around
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six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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comfortably the world's highest but
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because thoroughbred horses must be bred
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naturally and therefore a collection of
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sperm cannot be purchased equating the
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cost of Galileo's semen requires some
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extrapolation assuming that during the
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course of a natural covering Galileo
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ejaculates the average of 50 ml of semen
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and assuming that the semen is high
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enough quality to impregnate a mare
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successfully and assuming that a breeder
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paid six hundred and fifty thousand
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dollars for that service then we can
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deduce that a gallon of Galileo's semen
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could be worth a whopping forty nine
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million dollars making it the most
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expensive liquid on earth
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but is it worth it well I can't think
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there's a lot of work there's a lot of
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luck in it but you've got to make your
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luck and you've got to start off with
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the right genetics the chances obviously
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you need to breathe a lot to get that
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particular horse but with the right
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genetics you've got a much better chance
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Galileo's position as the top SIA is
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cemented by the achievements of his
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offspring he is sired no less than 84
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winners including Frankel who himself
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has now been put to stud commanding the
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second-highest stud fee in the UK of
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around two hundred and twenty thousand
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dollars in turn he has sired a further
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ten winners like father like son
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despite generally being safer for both
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stallion and mare artificial
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insemination is criticized for his
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ethics around science and nature but the
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analysis of thoroughbred racehorse
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genetics has added to the controversy
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surrounding horse breeding roughly 10
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percent experience orthopedic problems
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and the majority suffer exercise induced
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bleeding in the lungs
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Peter investigators captured video from
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inside the breeding barns at dolly in
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Kentucky one of the world's most
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expensive thoroughbred breeding
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facilities where stallions were goaded
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to cover more than a hundred mares each
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in a breeding season some thoroughbreds
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were even sold for slaughter at a horse
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meat market with so much money to be
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made in racing show jumping dressage and
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more the price of horse semen will
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remain stable
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