Standardbred Sport Horses - Paperback

by Kathleen H. Kirsan (Author)

A reference work for the sport horse breeder, with over 200 full page pedigrees, that traces the tremendous sport abilities of this breed from the 1600s until the present. Outline:

*American Running Horse history from 1634 to 1925

*the major mid-gait bloodlines in America and England

* Equine genetics and their relevance to sport horse breeding

* American Trotter 1818-1879

*Pacing Running Horse and its Narragansett Pacer branch, Morgan Horse and Canadian Pacer bloodlines

* American Standardbred 1879-present

* American Trotter and Standardbred in International sport and breeding from 1829 to present

* Standardbred and its bloodlines in modern Olympic style sport and breeding

*American breeds and breeders in the modern International market place