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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.
A closed stud book is a stud book or breed registry that does not accept any outside blood. The registered animals and all subsequent offspring trace back to the foundation stock. This ensures that the animal is a purebred member of the breed. In horses, an example of a closed stud book is that of the Thoroughbred, with a stud book tracing to ...
Studbook selection is a process used in certain breeds of horses to select breeding stock. It allows a breed registry to direct the evolution of the breed towards the ideal by eliminating unhealthy or undesirable animals from the population.
In 1980 the name was changed to American Saddlebred Horse Association (ASHA), and in 1985 the association moved to the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. In 2021, ASHA merged with the American Saddlebred Registry to become American Saddlebred Horse and Breeders Association, Inc. (ASHBA). [2]
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; Families B1-B26 trace directly to F.M. Prior's Half-Bred Studbook; Families C1-C16 are described in the Australian Stud Book as approved Colonial Families
The American Stud Book, the registration book for American Thoroughbreds, was not founded until 1873, much later than the General Stud Book, [8] [a] and the rules for registration required only that a horse have five generations of ancestors in the American Stud Book or other national stud books, unlike the General Stud Book rules. [10]
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Since the American Quarter Horse was formally established as a breed, the AQHA stud book has remained open to additional Thoroughbred blood via a performance standard. An "Appendix" American Quarter Horse is a first generation cross between a registered Thoroughbred and an American Quarter Horse or a cross between a "numbered" American Quarter ...