NARRATOR: OK, there’s this Argentinian guy
named Adolfo Cambiaso.
Many call him “The G.O.A.T of polo.”
You know, the sport with the horses and the sticks
and the ball and all the money, like the logo
on your collared shirt.
Adolfo has been ranked among the world’s best polo players
for 22 years straight.
So random question.
What is this G.O.A.T of polo have to do with a businessman
named Alan and his pancreas?
That actually leads to a pretty crazy
story about how clones are transforming
sports and your life.
Well, maybe not yet, but soon.
So let’s take a deeper look at how the polo G.O.A.T
and the pancreas are linked.
Let’s start from the beginning.
Meet Alan Meeker.
He’s a businessman– Texas through and through–
and he loves horses.
But like 30 million Americans, he’s got diabetes.
Clearly, being a financier and all,
Meeker had a few extra and unusual
resources at his disposal.
And he started researching whether cloning his pancreas
could cure his diabetes, and it could have change lives.
But alas, the cloned pancreas was a no-go.
But Meeker learned a lot, and he became
an amateur cloning expert fascinated
by what it could do for polo.
So he set up a cloning company in Texas.
Meeker licensed the technology that had been cloning
all kinds of mammals since 1996 including
a famous sheep named Dolly.
So Meeker figured it wouldn’t be much of a stretch
to clone horses, too.
But he wanted to work with the best DNA.
So he flew all the way to Argentina– the mecca of polo.
When he got there, Meeker met with that Argentinean guy
we talked about earlier.
You know, The G.O.A.T, Adolfo?
Adolfo’s prized horse died almost
10 years earlier after an injury in a championship match.
Ever the forward-thinking G.O.A.T,
Adolfo saved his horse’s DNA, and Meeker had to have it.
Together, the two set out to clone and breed a horse army.
Just kidding.
Scratch that.
Together, the two set out to clone and breed the best herd
of polo horses on Planet Earth and revolutionize
the game of polo–
#squadgoals.
And clone they did.
Meeker and The G.O.A.T have created
more than 25 clones of Cambiaso’s champion polo
horses.
And their company, Crestview, has cloned more than 200 horses
since 2009.
Some are even breeding.
And miraculously, in 2017, a polo championship was won using
the DNA of those prized horses.
You heard that right.
The G.O.A.T won the Argentine Open riding only cloned horses.
So thanks to Alan Meeker’s pancreatic problems
and visionary thinking, you can now
own a cloned horse of your own for upwards
of a cool $100,000 US dollars.
But that’s not the whole story.
For more, watch new episodes of Explorer
on National Geographic.
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named Adolfo Cambiaso.
Many call him “The G.O.A.T of polo.”
You know, the sport with the horses and the sticks
and the ball and all the money, like the logo
on your collared shirt.
Adolfo has been ranked among the world’s best polo players
for 22 years straight.
So random question.
What is this G.O.A.T of polo have to do with a businessman
named Alan and his pancreas?
That actually leads to a pretty crazy
story about how clones are transforming
sports and your life.
Well, maybe not yet, but soon.
So let’s take a deeper look at how the polo G.O.A.T
and the pancreas are linked.
Let’s start from the beginning.
Meet Alan Meeker.
He’s a businessman– Texas through and through–
and he loves horses.
But like 30 million Americans, he’s got diabetes.
Clearly, being a financier and all,
Meeker had a few extra and unusual
resources at his disposal.
And he started researching whether cloning his pancreas
could cure his diabetes, and it could have change lives.
But alas, the cloned pancreas was a no-go.
But Meeker learned a lot, and he became
an amateur cloning expert fascinated
by what it could do for polo.
So he set up a cloning company in Texas.
Meeker licensed the technology that had been cloning
all kinds of mammals since 1996 including
a famous sheep named Dolly.
So Meeker figured it wouldn’t be much of a stretch
to clone horses, too.
But he wanted to work with the best DNA.
So he flew all the way to Argentina– the mecca of polo.
When he got there, Meeker met with that Argentinean guy
we talked about earlier.
You know, The G.O.A.T, Adolfo?
Adolfo’s prized horse died almost
10 years earlier after an injury in a championship match.
Ever the forward-thinking G.O.A.T,
Adolfo saved his horse’s DNA, and Meeker had to have it.
Together, the two set out to clone and breed a horse army.
Just kidding.
Scratch that.
Together, the two set out to clone and breed the best herd
of polo horses on Planet Earth and revolutionize
the game of polo–
#squadgoals.
And clone they did.
Meeker and The G.O.A.T have created
more than 25 clones of Cambiaso’s champion polo
horses.
And their company, Crestview, has cloned more than 200 horses
since 2009.
Some are even breeding.
And miraculously, in 2017, a polo championship was won using
the DNA of those prized horses.
You heard that right.
The G.O.A.T won the Argentine Open riding only cloned horses.
So thanks to Alan Meeker’s pancreatic problems
and visionary thinking, you can now
own a cloned horse of your own for upwards
of a cool $100,000 US dollars.
But that’s not the whole story.
For more, watch new episodes of Explorer
on National Geographic.
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