Scientists crack gene code to make horses that run faster and jump higher - and they could compete soon in the Olympics

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Sarah Knapton

Genetically engineered horses designed to be faster, stronger and better jumpers will be born in 2019 after a breakthrough by the same laboratory which clones polo ponies.

Scientists in Argentina successfully used a powerful DNA editing technique called Crispr to rewrite the genomes of cloned horses.