the Year award, and she rode the horse to his third win at the Budweiser AGA Championships. Her second season continued to be successful, with wins at three World Cup qualifying classes, including Tampa's Volvo Grand Prix of Florida—whose starting field of more than eighty horses made it the largest grand prix jumper class of all time. She finished Gem's career with a win at the World Cup USA East League Championship (which was held at the same venue at which he won his first Grand Prix with Best nine years earlier). Chapot formally retired Gem Twist at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden on November 1, 1997. During his career, Gem Twist accumulated more than $800,000 in prize money. In 2002, Gem Twist was inducted into the United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame. He was euthanized November 18, 2006 at the age of twenty-seven. Gemini, the first clone of Gem Twist In early 2006, Practical Horseman magazine first leaked a report that Gem Twist was to be the subject of a cloning experiment by a then-undisclosed international laboratory. On September 15, 2008, the French genetic bank, Cryozootech, announced the successful birth of a healthy clone of Gem Twist. As was Gem Twist, the foal was born bay, with a star, and sock on his right front, and is expected to dapple or grey-out in relative short order. Gemini, at 10 months, was moved from the Chapot family's Chado Farm in Texas to Frank Chapot's Neshanic Station farm in New Jersey. Gemini is showing his Gem Twist lineage, he's beginning to become a grey, as his coat shows flecks of white hair, and jumps fences over 3 feet high. Gemini's siring career In May 2012, it was revealed that Gemini has successfully sired his first offspring. He was bred to the Thoroughbred mare Otherwise Engaged, who gave birth to a healthy chestnut colt. The colt was born at Park Avenue Stables in Bucks County PA in March 2012, and his name is The Proposal. Any offspring of clones are not considered Thoroughbreds as the breed requires natural procreation for the bloodlines to qualify for the stud book. However, the clones would be eligible for Olympic competition. Murka's Gem, the second clone of Gem Twist Horse & Hound magazine confirmed the birth and existence of a second clone of Gem Twist. This was nicknamed Gem Twin (originally, a