Royal Blue Boon


Elaine Hall poses for a photo with her prize cutting horse, Royal Blue Boon, at Royal Vista Southwest in Purcell, Okla., Thursday, March 16, 2006. Royal Blue Boon has performance earnings of $381,764 and her offspring have earned $2.5 million. James Bailey, a veterinarian at the horse breeding facility that provided horses to carry the cloned embryos provided by ViaGen, said the University of California Davis genetics lab has confirmed that Royal Blue Boon and a clone, born Feb. 19, share the same genetics. (AP Photo)

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