Aiken Cura
| Aiken Cura | |
| Race: | Polo Argentino |
| Father: | Alma de Bacan |
| Mother: | Lady Well |
| Mother, father: | Lord Dikran |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1995 |
| Year of death: | 2007 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | Ricardo S. Santamarina |
| Owner: | Adolfo Cambiaso |
| Equestrian: | Adolfo Cambiaso |
Aiken Cura (born November 4, 1995 , † February 17, 2007 ) was an Argentine polo horse . He was descended from Lady Nun on his mother's side and his father was Alma de Bacan .
Services
The bay stallion was bred by Ricardo S. Santamarina. When he was five years old, he was sold to Salvador Socas, who two years later sold him to his half-brother Adolfo Cambiaso , an Argentine polo player.
In 2004 Cambiaso played the horse for the first time in the Argentine Open . In 2005 he was used in all three major Open ( Tortugas Open , Hurlingham Open and Argentine Open), each for two to three chukka.
He then received several awards for his achievements, including the Lady Susan Townley Cup and the AACCP (Association of Argentine Polo Horse Breeders) award, each as “Best Horse of the Argentine Open” and a prize from La Sociedad Rural Argentina . Aiken Cura is the first stallion to receive these awards and the first horse to receive all three awards at once.
In 2006 he went back to the Argentine Open when he broke his left front leg in the last extra chukka. Despite all efforts to save the animal (amputation of the foot, prosthesis), it had to be euthanized on February 17, 2007 due to complications.
Cambiaso had Aiken Cura skin cells frozen. These were successfully used for cloning in 2009.
Web links
- "Aiken Cura" The Argentine Open's Top Horse
- La Nacion of February 21, 2007 "Murió Aiken Cura ..."
- Aiken Cura - Homenaje a un padrillo que hizo historia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Send it in the clones , Frederick Bernas, Hemispheres, Onboard Magazine from United Airlines , 2018