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One of the four stamps released by Portugal on 7 September 2011, to mark World Veterinary Year, features the horse with graphical representation of DNA; the theme of the stamp is animal production and improvement. Incidentally, the first draft genome sequence of the domestic horse (
Equus caballus) was completed in April 2007.