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 edit
Links of the moment edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- Volume 1 May 1831
- Volume 3 May-October 1832
- Volume 4 November 1832
Taunton Chronicles edit
American horse-racing edit
Useful publications on early American horse-racing.
American Turf Register edit
Like it's British counterpart Sporting Magazine- racing/hunting commentary of the day.
- Volume 1 September 1829
- Volume 2 October 1830
- Volume 3 September 1831
- Volume 4 September 1832
- Volume 5 September 1833
- Volume 6 September 1834
- Volume 7 September 1835
- Volume 8 September 1836
- Volume 9 January 1838
- Volume 10 January and February 1839
- Volume 11 February 1840
- Volume 12 January 1841
Books edit
- 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) edit
- 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 edit
Racing calendar edit
The turf register, and sportsman & breeder's stud-book edit
Studbook of New South Wales edit
- Volume 1 1859
German/Prussian Stud book edit
General Stud Book edit
- 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 edit
- 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 edit
- Volume 1 1838
- Volume 2 1840
- Volume 3 1843
- Volume 4 1846
- Volume 5 1847
- 1851
- 1851-1856
- 1857-1860
- 1861-1862
- 1863-1864
- 1865-1866
- 1869-1871
- 1872-1874
- 1875-1877
- 1884-1886
- 1891-1893
Other edit
- Race pure en France, classement par étalons des poulinières inscrites
- Etalons de pur sang 1920
- Chevaux du haras de La Lucazière (1897-1906)
Reorganized volumes edit
Cyprian Stud Book edit
- Volume 2 (1968-1994)
- Volume 3 (1995-1999)
- Volume 4 (2000-2004)
- Volume 5 (2005-2009)
- Volume 6 (2010-2014)
Hungarian Stud Book edit
Bulgarian stud book edit
Belgian stud book edit
Saudi Arabian stud book edit
Turkish Stud book edit
- ^ 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.