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Statistics on the year's record of every racehorse, racehorse owner, racehorse trainer, and racehorse breeder are also part of the content along with track speed records and world records. Articles about subjects connected with the racing industry as well as analyzing trends and developments from the year are also included.
It originates from warmblood horses bred principally for military use in the nineteenth century. [2] It was officially recognised as a breed in 2005, and a stud-book was started in that year [4]: 154 [3]: 148 [2] or in 2006. [5]: 9 Only horses with at least 87.5%, but less than 100%, Thoroughbred blood are eligible for registration. [2]
Prospect Point was bred in Kentucky by Forest Retreat Farms and Lloyd I. Miller. [2] He was sired by First Dawn, an unraced minor stallion bred by the great Ogden Phipps.His paternal granddam, Lovely Morning, was a half sister to American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horses and Grade I winners Successor and Bold Lad. [3]
Although the Thoroughbred is primarily bred for racing, the breed is also used for show jumping and combined training because of its athleticism, and many retired and retrained race horses become fine family riding horses, dressage horses, and youth show horses.
The average is stated as a value of 1.00. The AEI is calculated for each year a horse has offspring racing and can be averaged for all years that horse has had first generation descendants on the track. [2] The AEI can be used for additional comparisons, such as the composite AEI of a sire or damsire based on all of his progeny.
The value of a Thoroughbred may be influenced by the purse money it wins. In 2007, Thoroughbred racehorses earned a total of $1,217,854,602 in all placings, an average earnings per starter of $16,924. [8] In addition, the track record of a race horse may influence its future value as a breeding animal.
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The Jockey Club is the breed registry for Thoroughbred horses in the United States and Canada. It is dedicated to the improvement of Thoroughbred breeding and racing and fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by supporting numerous industry initiatives.