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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history." [15] At the time of his 1990 death, his descendants had won more than 1,000 stakes races. [13] As of 2020, twenty-seven of the thirty-three horses on this list were from the Northern Dancer sire line.
For Europe, the July 2007 Tattersall's Sale sold 593 horses at auction, with a total for the sale of 10,951,300 guineas, [90] for an average of 18,468 guineas. [91] Also in 2007, Doncaster Bloodstock Sales, another British sales firm, sold 2,248 horses for a total value of 43,033,881 guineas, making an average of 15,110 guineas per horse. [92]
Fasig-Tipton's main horse auction in the early 20th century was referred to as "Old Glory." Held annually in late November or early December, the Old Glory sale offered a "Grand Aggregation of Thoroughbred Stallions, Mares, Racehorses, Yearlings, and Weanlings," [4] as well as Standardbreds. Shortly after the Old Glory sale of 1907, New York ...
Many horses were inbred in the early years of Thoroughbred development, which increased the chances of early horses appearing in many pedigrees today. [10] [11] One example was Old Bald Peg placed in family 6, one of the earliest tap-root dams, having been foaled around 1635. Most, if not all modern Thoroughbreds trace their ancestry to her ...
The Thoroughbred horse was developed from about this time, with native mares being crossbred to Arab, Turk and Barb horses to produce excellent racehorses; the General Stud Book, giving clear and detailed pedigrees, was first published in the 1790s, and the lineage of today's Thoroughbred horses can be traced with great accuracy to 1791. [95]
The Jersey Act was a regulation introduced to prevent the registration of most American-bred Thoroughbred horses in the British General Stud Book. It had its roots in the desire of British horse breeders to halt the influx of American-bred racehorses of possibly impure bloodlines during the early 20th century.
(The previous sale record price was set at the 2000 Keeneland yearling sale for Moon's Whisper at $4.4 million.) In 2014 Tattersalls Ltd announced that it had acquired a majority stake in Osarus, a bloodstock-sales company based in the South West region of France which has been rapidly establishing itself within the French market since its ...
Alcock's Arabian (foaled about 1700, died about 1733), also known as Pelham Grey Arabian and less certainly as Bloody Buttocks and Ancaster Turk, among other names, is the ancestor of all grey-coloured Thoroughbred horses, [1] as well as grey sport and riding horses descended from Thoroughbred lines.
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