Artificial insemination is widely used in horse and other animal breeding.
From Wikipedia:
Unlike a significant number of registered breeds today, a horse cannot be registered as a Thoroughbred (with The Jockey Club registry) unless conceived by live cover, the witnessed natural mating of a mare and a stallion.So if we're talking about the fastest horses, the WaPo reporter is FOS. (No surprise.)
ML/NJ
True, but the Jockey Club does not allow any means but live cover. No artificial insemination, cloning or other means and the description of how the breeding is to take place to qualify the resulting foal is graphic.
AQHA does allow AI for registration but the article kept referring to the Kentucky Derby and other things that would only pertain to TBs.
However if a foal is born to a mare that is registered with the jockey club and her lineage is verified with DNA, the resulting foal can get a racing permit to race in TB races- even if the sire is not registered so I suppose the breeding could be done AI and a racing permit could be issued, but the foal could not be registered, would be allowed to race.
With all the money at stake directly related to registered horses with the Jockey Club I would be surprised if many would go that route but I have been wrong before.
I would say very unlikely AI done with TB race horses, but not impossible.
and certain members of LGBT crowd