Polo horses breeding boom in Argentina
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(22 Oct 2011)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 5, 2011
1. Mid of polo game as players compete for ball
2. Close of people looking on from stands
3. Various of polo game
4. Mid of large team score card for 'La Quinta' (polo team of English team player Mark Tomlinson)
5. Wide of polo players returning to team corner bench
6. Mid of La Quinta polo team members including Mark Tomlinson sitting centre
7. Mid of the grooms attending the polo horses
8. Close of polo horse
9. SOUNDBITE (English), Mark Tomlinson, English team polo player:
"Well, I mean, it's the number one horse breed in the world, the polo breed from Argentina. I suppose the best comparison is the English thoroughbred, the English or the American thoroughbred which in racing is a long way ahead of other countries and Argentina is similar in the polo. They have been doing it for so many years, you've got generations of mares and stallions that are breeding for polo. So I suppose it's that history that gives them such an advantage."
Lincoln, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina - October 12, 2011
10. Wide of racehorse owner Fernando Riera walking into the paddock with mares and foals
11. Mid of mares and foals
12. Close of Fernando Riera
13. Wide of mares and foals
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish), Fernando Riera, owner, Dona Pilar Reproduction Centre:
"These mares do not need to go through a period of pregnancy (so they're) going to be able to produce foals every year. What this (embryo transfer) permits is the possibility to gain a lot of time. This is because, before now, for a polo playing mare to get pregnant, you had to be able to take out an embryo, or for a mare to get pregnant you had to wait until they finished their athletic life."
15. Mid of horses being corralled into enclosed paddock
16. Wide of horse being led into stall in treatment stables
17. Close of horse being closed into stall
18. Pan of vet approaching horses in stalls to begin scan
19. Close of vet Jaime Roldan
20. Close of gaucho and horse looking on
21. Close of scanning screen
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jaime Roldan, veterinarian, Dona Pilar Reproduction Centre:
"Embryo transfer involves inseminating a quality mare, a donor mare of good stock, with good genes (and injecting her) with the semen of a quality stallion. Detection takes place by monitoring the follicles from the moment of ovulation, when the egg travels to the fallopian tubes. Approximately, seven days to eight days after the ovulation we carry out the flushing which is a washing process which lets us recover the embryo and catch this embryo in a filter. Then later we are going to transfer this embryo using a special depositor into a receptor. A mare of inferior genetic quality who will carry out the labour and later the birth and bringing up of the foal."
23. Wide of stallion being lead into enclosed shed as mare stands in stall
24. Close of mare
25. Wide of stallion mounting dummy mare
26. Close of assistant looking on
27. Wide of vet entering lab carrying leather retainer containing semen
28. Mid of biologist opening window in laboratory to receive semen sample
29. Mid of biologist sitting in front of motility testing counter
30. Close of semen being examined in petri dish
31. Mid of biologist placing embryo in a container for shipping
32. Close of biologist closing addressed labelled lid on container
Buenos Aires, Argentina - September 26, 2011
33. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan MacDonough, President, Unicorn S.A.:
Lincoln, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina - October 12, 2011
34. Wide of horse in a stall being examined by veterinarians
35. Mid of test samples being taken for examination
36. Close of stallion catalogue and files in lab
37. Various of Fernando Riera in laboratory
42. Various of polo game
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