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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.
A former president of the Bank of Moscow, Andrey Borodin fled his native Russia in 2011, finding political asylum in the UK, where he bought Park Place—a palatial 18th-century estate that once belonged to the father of King George III. Early in the morning on April 24, 2024, Cambiaso sat in a wood-paneled courtroom in the Alto Lee Adams Sr. courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida—the same building where Donald Trump would face more than 40 felony counts related to allegedly withholding classified documents. Shortly before he started negotiating the deal to sell the clones, Meeker had lost another legal battle over an unpaid contract involving a genomics testing company he had cofounded, and was served with a judgment to pay $1.4 million.
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