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The Thoroughbred is a distinct breed of horse, although people sometimes refer to a purebred horse of any breed as a thoroughbred. The term for any horse or other animal derived from a single breed line is purebred.
American Spotted [2]: 435 American Spotted Paso [2]: 435 American Thoroughbred: Thoroughbred: derives directly from the British Thoroughbred; some lines and some coat colors would not be eligible for registration in the General Stud Book [2]: 436 American Walking Pony [2]: 436 American Warmblood [2]: 436 American White Horse [2]: 436
Stellar Wind: Stellar Wind is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, known for her Eclipse Award winning three-year-old season, and later for her rivalry with the champion mare Beholder. Still in Love: 2003 Japanese Fillies' Triple Crown winner; Storm Cat: one of the most successful U.S. sires of the late 20th century
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 October 2024. Horses running at a ranch in Texas Horses have been an important component of American life and culture since before the founding of the nation. In 2023, there were an estimated 6.65 million horses in the United States, with 1.5 million horse owners, 25 million citizens that participate ...
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). The shorter distances are more common but the mid-to-long-distance races tend to be higher in prestige.
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]
Messenger (1780 – January 28, 1808) was an English Thoroughbred stallion imported into the newly formed United States of America just after the American Revolution. He is most famous for being the great-grandsire of Hambletonian 10, the father of all American Standardbred horses. Though he did not have a long racing career himself, he was a ...
The Thoroughbred also supplanted the Narragansett Pacer as the favored horse breed of the United States Cavalry. The disappearance of the Narragansett Pacer through heavy crossbreeding to Thoroughbreds, particularly for refined cavalry and racing horses, was also noted by Confederate General Basil W. Duke in his 1911 memoir Reminiscences of ...