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This category has the following 89 subcategories, out of 89 total. T. Thoroughbred family 1 (22 C, 3 P) Thoroughbred family 2 (20 C, 12 P) Thoroughbred family 3 (14 C, 21 P) Thoroughbred family 4 (17 C, 14 P) Thoroughbred family 5 (10 C, 10 P) Thoroughbred family 6 (7 C, 6 P)
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed for horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are considered "hot-blooded" horses that are known for agility, speed, and spirit. The Thoroughbred was developed in 17th- and ...
Sir Barton was a chestnut colt bred in 1916, in Kentucky, by John E. Madden at Hamburg Place Farm near Lexington.An Englishman, Vivian A. Gooch, who judged the 1918 National Horse, was co-listed as breeder with Madden, but Gooch had actually served as the agent who purchased Sir Martin, Sir Barton's half-brother, from Madden for Louis Winans.
Arrogate (April 11, 2013 – June 2, 2020) was a Thoroughbred racehorse, and was the richest horse in equine history (by earnings). He won the 2016 Travers Stakes in a record time in his first stakes appearance. He won the Breeders' Cup Classic and was named the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and World's Best Racehorse of 2016.
A.P. Indy (March 31, 1989 – February 21, 2020) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Belmont Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic on his way to American Horse of the Year honors in 1992. His time in the Belmont Stakes tied Easy Goer for the second-fastest running in the history of the race, behind his damsire Secretariat. [2]
The Darley Arabian was to become the most important sire in the history of the English Thoroughbred. [3] His son Bulle Rock was the first Thoroughbred to be exported to America, in 1730. [4] Most Thoroughbreds can be traced back to Darley Arabian. In 95% of modern Thoroughbred racehorses, the Y chromosome can be traced back to this single stallion.
Military horses. Autumn Dew, horse owned by Emperor Taizong of Tang. Babieca, horse of El Cid. Bill the Bastard, legendary Australian war horse. Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976. Blueskin, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War.
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.