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Under Charles II, a keen racegoer and owner, and Anne, royal support was given to racing and the breeding of race horses. With royal support, horse racing became popular with the public, and by 1727, a newspaper devoted to racing, the Racing Calendar, was founded. Devoted exclusively to the sport, it recorded race results and advertised ...
The General Stud Book is a breed registry for horses in Great Britain and Ireland. More specifically it is used to document the breeding of Thoroughbreds and related foundation bloodstock such as the Arabian horse. Today it is published every four years by Weatherbys. [1] Volume 49 was published in 2021. [2]
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 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. [2]
Eclipse (1 April 1764 – 26 February 1789) was an undefeated 18th-century British Thoroughbred racehorse who won 18 races, including 11 King's Plates. He raced before the introduction of the British Classic Races, at a time when four-mile heat racing was the norm.
The Manual was considered the "World Almanac" of racing during its earlier publication history. [4] Tom Ainslie, a noted American handicapper, calls the work a "magnificent encyclopedic" work. [5] Although the main publication from 1906 covered only Thoroughbreds, the previous incarnations also included harness racing and other sporting events. [4]
The tragedies at Santa Anita spurred The Stronach Group and the California Horse Racing Board to institute a series of rules changes that made the sport safer. A lot safer. A lot safer.
Squirt (1732 – ?) was a Thoroughbred racehorse, best known as the grandsire of Eclipse, founder of the breed's dominant sire line. [2] He lived at a time when the Thoroughbred breed was in its infancy, before even the foundation of the Jockey Club (in 1750) and General Stud Book (in 1791).