User:Froggerlaura/Sources for Thoroughbred projects

Froggerlaura's basic list of sources for researching topics on early (18-19th century) horse-racing or Thoroughbred pedigrees. Most are links to Google Books, but a few come from the excellent free searchable database HathiTrust.

British horse-racing

Links of the moment

From American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine "Obituary of celebrated turf horses." May 1833 vol.4 (9): pp.441-442:

Cedric died in 1829 of inflammation- "covered three seasons but never got a foal"
Election in 1821 at Euston Hall from inflammation
Engineer in 1782
Octavius early in the year 1831
Orville was shot Nov. 1826
Smolensko on Jan. 10, 1829
Trumpetor at Newmarket on May 7, 1808
Waxy Pope at Clearwell on Aug 29, 1831
Whalebone "broke a blood vessel Feb 5 1831 after covering Ogress and died the next day" Feb 6 1831
Whisker March 11 1832 "he covered a few mares that season"

from Volume 3(3):107-112

Gohanna in April 1815 immediately after covering Shoestring (mare missed)
Skyscraper December 1807
Williamson's Ditto 1821
Worthy after the season of 1814

White Knight died on 20 May 1922- GSB v25, 1925, p.1144
Fille de l'Air died in 1878 at age 17 [1].
Placida was alive in 1892 [2].

Oaks winners GSB enteries

Bridget, 1776, last foal was Sir Harry Derby winner in 1795 no death date
Tetotum, Lady Bolingbroke's first foal, last foal in 1800 for O'Kelly [3]
Faith, last foal 1796. Faith died in 1799, her filly sister to Bobtail died as a rising 3yo, her colt Trentham died unbroken.^[1]
Ceres, last foal 1794
Maid of the Oaks, last foal 1797, died on passage to America
Stella- no record?
Trifle last foal 1803, ran in Ireland
Yellow Filly died summer 1805
Annette last foal 1804
Nightshade last foal 1803
Tag last foal 1803
Hippolyta last foal 1798
Portia last foal 1807
Volante no stud record
Caelia
Hermione- died while trying to foal a large colt, only produce was filly Kitty Bean (death year not given)
Platina- died early 1820
Nike last foal 1815
Bellissima last foal in 1810
Bellina
Ephemera
Princess Dorrie died in 1927 -General Stud Book, XXVL (1929), p. 813.

The death of Formosa was reported in March 1881 soon after she was purchased by M. Lefevre and exported to France.^[2]

Sporting Magazine

Published from 1792 to 1870 (united with New Sporting Magazine in 1846). Good source for early nineteenth century British horse-racing, commentary can be unreliable. The full list.

New Sporting Magazine

Volume 1 May 1831
Volume 3 May-October 1832
Volume 4 November 1832

Taunton Chronicles

Volume 1 (1702-1797)
Volume 2 (1797-1824)
Volume 3 (1824-1842)
Volume 4 (1842-1870)

American horse-racing

Useful publications on early American horse-racing.

American Turf Register

Like it's British counterpart Sporting Magazine- racing/hunting commentary of the day.

Books

Sanders Bruce, 1883, The horse breeders handbook- Sire information
James Douglas Anderson, 1916, Making the American thoroughbred: especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845- Early British imports and development of American Thoroughbreds
Thomas B. Merry, 1905, The American thoroughbred
Charles E. Trevathan, 1905, The American thoroughbred (kind of the same as Merry's)

Newspaper databases (free of course)

The Daily Racing Form- Invaluable resource that covers all aspects of American horse racing from 1896 to the 1980s. Note: all issues belonging to Kentuckiana Library/Keeneland Library have not been uploaded to the archives (some years have no uploaded issues).

Old Fulton NY Postcards- not really about postcards at all. One of the most comprehensive early American newspaper databases I have found, though searching it can be a pain (no way to narrow search by date).

Stud books

Racing calendar

The turf register, and sportsman & breeder's stud-book

Volume 1 1803
Volume 2 1803
Volume 3 1823
Volume 4

Studbook of New South Wales

Volume 1 1859

German/Prussian Stud book

Volume 2 (1835)
Volume 3 (1837)

General Stud Book

Volume 1 and 2 1834
Volume 3 1855
Volume 4 1840
Volume 5 1864
Volume 6
Volume 7 1857
Volume 8 1857
Volume 9 1861
Volume 10 1865
Volume 11 1869
Volume 12 1873
Volume 13 1877
Volume 14 1881
Volume 15 1885
Volume 16 1889
Volume 17 1893
Volume 18 1897
Volume 19 1901
Volume 20 1905
Volume 20 sup. 1905
Volume 21 1909
Volume 21 sup. 1909
Volume 21 sup. 1910
Volume 21 sup. 1911
Volume 22 1913
Volume 22 sup. 1913
Volume 22 sup. 1914
Volume 22 sup. 1915
Volume 23 1917
Volume 23 1918
Volume 23 sup. 1919
Volume 23 sup. 1920

American Stud Book

Volume 1 1873- Vol 1 A to L
Volume 2 1873- Vol 2 M to Z
Volume 3 1882
Volume 5 1889
Volume 6 is impossible to find and not digitized (1894)
Volume 7 1898
Annual supplement to Stud book (mare produce with foaling dates) 1894

Ping me at my talk page if you need info from the 1910, 1924 or 1932 American stud books.

Stud Book Francais

Other

Reorganized volumes

1851
1851-1856
1857-1860
1861-1862
1863-1864
1869-1871
1872-1874
1875-1877
1884-1886
1891-1893

Cyprian Stud Book

Volume 2 (1968-1994)
Volume 3 (1995-1999)
Volume 4 (2000-2004)
Volume 5 (2005-2009)
Volume 6 (2010-2014)

Hungarian Stud Book

Bulgarian stud book

Belgian stud book

Saudi Arabian stud book

Turkish Stud book

^ Weatherby (1800). "Faith". The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: 17.
^ Merlin (12 March 1881). "Sporting notes". Launceston Examiner. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

[1] Weatherby (1800). "Faith". The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: 17.

[merlin-2] Merlin (12 March 1881). "Sporting notes". Launceston Examiner. Retrieved 10 May 2012.

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