Last year's winning mare of the Twemlows Burghley Scholarship, Harry Meade's Cavalier Crystal, with the team at Twemlows
Twemlows To Offer Burghley Scholarship To Highest Placed British Mare At Defender Burghley Horse Trials
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Twemlows Stud Farm, one of the UK’s leading reproductive centres is once again supporting elite British breeding with the Burghley scholarship. The award will be presented to the highest-placed British domiciled mare to finish in the top 20 at this year’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials. The generous award consists of two embryo transfers at Twemlows, home to an expert reproductive veterinary team and state of the art facilities.
The objective of the scholarship is to encourage owners who compete mares at the highest level to breed from their mares while they are still competing and at their optimum breeding age, without interrupting their competition career.
“Embryo transfer has opened the door to breeding from elite mares while they are still in their competitive prime” explains Twemlows Stud Farm manager, Edward Matson. “At Twemlows we have a large herd of recipient mares who we carefully match to the donor mare, and we take care of every stage of the process, from synchronisation and insemination to foaling and foal care. Our vets are highly skilled, and we have great success rates with our embryo transfer programme.”
This year will mark the 17th year that Twemlows have been providing the Burghley scholarship, and previous winners include Mary King, Piggy Frenche and Jonelle Price. The award has been won for the past two years by eventing’s world number one Harry Meade’s mare Cavalier Crystal.
“We are delighted to be sponsoring the Defender Burghley Horse Trials once again and we are very proud of the role we play in promoting these incredible mares’ bloodlines” adds Edward. “There are some fantastic mares competing this year and we are excited to see who the Twemlows scholarship will be award to.”
Embryo transfer, a form of surrogacy, involves the donor mare being inseminated and the embryo being transferred to the recipient mare who carries the foal to term. This allows competing mares, or those who can’t safely carry the foal themselves to be bred from without pausing their competitive schedule or putting them at risk.
Embryo transfer is just one of the services provided by Twemlows who offer a full suite of reproductive care. To find out more about Twemlows or breeding, visit www.twemlows.co.uk or contact Edward on [email protected]
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