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SONNY PERDUE,
United States Secretary
of Agriculture, Visited the
Polo Argentino Ponies at
“Doña Sofía” Genetics,
at San Antonio de Areco.
By Federico Levy
After having taken part in the G20 meeting for Ministers of Agriculture, Sonny
Perdue decided to visit “Doña Sofía” at San Antonio de Areco.
Breeder Daniel Sammartino remarked: “The visit
by Secretary Sonny Perdue was very important
to us, and it means great acknowledgement
regarding the work we are doing. It isn’t
something that happens every day. The fact
that the Secretary of Agroindustry of the most
powerful country in the world should choose
a farm and that it should have been us, at first
surprised me, and later filled me with pride,
because he had many options but he came to
“Doña Sofía”.
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He was very impressed by the genetic quality;
uniformity of the horses; by our policy of
incorporating American bloodlines; by our having
brought Sage’s clones to Argentina, and by how
it all started when Adolfito played Show Me after
our agreement with Charlie Armstrong, which is
when we began crossing Argentine bloodlines
with American.”
Sammartino also told us that Sonny Perdue
“was amazed”. He said he would speak with