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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]
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] Out-crossing with Thoroughbred, Anglo-Arab and Selle Français stock is permitted. [2]
The seven-length victory was the largest of his career and the largest winning margin in Breeders' Cup Turf history. [25] The horse was then retired to stud for the 2008 season at Hurricane Hall Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. [26] He currently stands at Lanes End in Versailles, Kentucky. At maturity, he reached 15.3 hands (63 inches, 160 cm) high ...
Eclipse Press is the book-publishing division of Blood-Horse Publications, an international publishing house for top Thoroughbred and general equine magazines, books, videos, CD-ROMs and annual references. Sheffield-based Eclipse tools, now part of Spear & Jackson, took their name and their Eclipse first... slogan in 1909 from the horse.
Flying Childers (1715–1741) [1] was a famous undefeated 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1714 at Carr House, Warmsworth, Doncaster, and is sometimes considered as the first truly great racehorse in the history of thoroughbreds [4] and the first to catch the public imagination.
The Breeders' Cup hasn't had a horse fatality since 2019, but recent safety improvements in the sport still haven't brought an end to thoroughbred deaths. Thoroughbred deaths put horse racing ...
The Byerley Turk (c. 1680 – c. 1703), [1] also spelled Byerly Turk, was the earliest of three stallions that were the founders of the modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock (the other two are the Godolphin Arabian and the Darley Arabian).
Pocahontas (1837–1870) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse and the dam of three sires who had a great influence on the breed. Although mares are not generally considered to be as influential as sires, Thoroughbred Heritage refers to Pocahontas as "one of the most influential Thoroughbreds of all time, male or female."