[vitally3643]

Since we've reached this point, it seems like the next logical step would be to standardize the genomes allowed just like racing standardizes the vehicles (to a point, I know).

It seems so much less interesting for the competition to devolve to "who can afford the best horse genome" instead of the actual skill and ability of the player. Since we're already cloning the horses, just force everyone to use the same horse and compete on skill instead of money.

This is one of the many reasons I find modern "pro" sports so dreadfully uninteresting. The competition has next to nothing to do with how good the player is, and everything to do with how far their fabulously wealthy sponsor can push the rules without "technically" cheating.

[gordian-mind]

What about the polo player's genome?

[SauntSolaire]

The next actual step according to the article is genetically engineering the horse clones. They've already crispr'd five as proof of concept.

[LearnYouALisp]

Are they doing transformer-training on the population?