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What are the three sires the Thoroughbred ancestry traces back to? ›

Thoroughbreds today can be traced back to three stallions, known as the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian and the Godolphin Arabian, which were imported to Great Britain from the Middle East and Turkey between the years 1689 and 1729.

Pedigrees for Thoroughbreds as well as many other horses can be found at www.allbreedpedigree.com , though care should be taken to verify all pedigrees. Like the well-known Wikipedia website, www.allpedigree.com allows users to input data, which may or may not be precise.

The term thoroughbred is sometimes incorrectly used to mean purebred, but Thoroughbreds are a specific breed, registered in the General Stud Book of the English Jockey Club, organized about 1750, or in the studbooks of similar clubs in other countries.

Pedigree refers to a horse's family tree, with its paternal ancestors- sire/father – on the top, and its maternal ancestors – dam/mother – on the bottom. A horse's pedigree provides insight into its potential ability and value as well as what type of racing your horse will be most suited to.

The historic samples were related largely via the Darley Arabian sire line (Fig. 2) to which 95% of all living Thoroughbreds can be traced in their paternal lineage². As neither the Byerley Turk nor the Godolphin Arabian sire lines were sampled in the historic data, we cannot preclude them as a source for the C-allele.

They are most often bay, dark bay or brown, chestnut, black, or gray. Less common colors recognized in the United States include roan and palomino. White is very rare, but is a recognized color separate from gray. The face and lower legs may be marked with white, but white will generally not appear on the body.

The term Thoroughbred describes a breed of horse whose ancestry traces back to three foundation sires – the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk.

The average life expectancy of a Thoroughbred horse is 25 to 35 years.

Secretariat, (foaled 1970), American racehorse (Thoroughbred) who is widely considered the greatest horse of the second half of the 20th century.

In a ridgling, either the testicl*s fail to descend, or they are trapped behind the external inguinal ring and cannot emerge. Usually both testicl*s in a horse have descended by the age of 16 months, but as many as 15% of all two- and three-year-old male horses may have a retained testicl*.

How do I find my Thoroughbred history? ›

For a free 5-cross pedigree and to order reports such as race records and progeny records, visit equineline.com, the online Thoroughbred information service of our subsidiary, The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. (TJCIS).

Selection for desirable traits entails identifying individuals with superior performance and often mating them to relatives (inbreeding) who possess the same superior traits. The goal of this practice is to increase the frequency of the desired characteristics and thus of the beneficial genes in the offspring.

Nearly all of today's racehorses can be traced back to one of three 'foundation' stallions – The Darley Arabian, The Godolphin Arabian and The Byerley Turk. These Arabian horses were imported into England between the late 17th and early 18th Century by gentlemen who wanted to breed better racehorses.

The term Thoroughbred describes a breed of horse whose ancestry traces back to three foundation sires – the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk.

Fortunately for their research, Thoroughbred breeding records are, well, thorough, and all modern Thoroughbreds can trace their paternal lineages back to one of three stallions: Byerly Turk, which lived in the 1680s; Darley Arabian, born in 1704; and Goldolphin Arabian, born in 1729.

Breed histories of the Thoroughbred often focus on the three foundation sires -- the Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian, and Godolphin Arabian -- who were brought to England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and crossed on English and imported mares.