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[10] [11] While the term probably came into general use because the English Thoroughbred's General Stud Book was one of the first breed registries created, in modern usage horse breeders consider it incorrect to refer to any animal as a thoroughbred except for horses belonging to the Thoroughbred breed. [10]
Before the introduction in 1913 of what became popularly known—"with questionable taste" according to a correspondent writing in The Times—as the Jersey Act, [1] Thoroughbred horses in the United Kingdom were registered in the General Stud Book, the stud book for British and Irish Thoroughbreds.
Believing the Thoroughbred was the best breed of horse and could pass on its superior traits to other breeds, in 1906 The Jockey Club of New York established the Breeding Bureau. Its purpose was to provide Thoroughbred stallions as sires that would produce a variety of top quality half-breed general purpose horses. [4]
The American Stud Book is the stud book for the Thoroughbred horse in the United States. It was founded by Sanders Bruce, with assistance from his brother B. G. Bruce in 1868. [ 1 ] In 1896, the Jockey Club bought out Bruce and assumed publication of the book, which it has continued to the present.
Other tracks offer Quarter Horse racing and Standardbred horse racing, or combinations of these three types of racing surfaces. Racing with other breeds, such as Arabian horse racing, is found on a limited basis. American Thoroughbred races are run at a wide variety of distances, most commonly from 5 to 12 furlongs (0.63 to 1.50 mi; 1.0 to 2.4 km).
America’s native horse breeds evolved alongside the nation’s history. Some were shaped by indigenous cultures that relied on them, while others adapted to the harsh realities of wild terrains.
[citation needed] As the Thoroughbred breed became established in America, many colonial Quarter Horses were included in the original American stud books. [9] This began a long association between the Thoroughbred breed and what would later become officially known as the "Quarter Horse", named after the 1 ⁄ 4 mile (0.40 km) race distance at ...
Thoroughbred families include the following: Families 1-43 are described by Bruce Lowe's Breeding Racehorses by the Figure System; Families A1-A37 descend from Sanders Bruce's American Stud Book, with mares who cannot be traced to Weatherbys General Stud Book (GSB) Families Ar1-Ar2 are Argentine families