Headley Britannia Embryo Transfer Available

Following the recent announcement of Headley Britannia’s forthcoming retirement from top-level competition, Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks will offer embryo transfer from the worlds’ best-known event mare.

Embryo transfer involves inseminating a donor mare with fresh, chilled or frozen semen of a stallion of choice around the time of ovulation to create an embryo. At eight days old, the embryo is non-surgically flushed out of the donor mare’s uterus and placed into a suitable surrogate mare, which carries the pregnancy to full-term. This allows the donor mare to continue competing and/or undergo further inseminations if desired. In fact, the mare can compete throughout every stage of embryo transfer providing geography allows.

Headley Britannia has already had successful embryo transfers. “Brit” produced two foals by embryo transfer in 2008, which are now part of a foal syndicate. Little Britannia and Britannia’s Mail were sired by the stallion Jaguar Mail as well as another foal Ruby by Grafenstoltz.

For more information, email marketing@teamfredericks.com

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