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.

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.
 * Placida was alive in 1892.
 * Death of Pitsford from colic in Dec 1862.

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
 * Faith, last foal 1796. Faith died in 1799, her filly sister to Bobtail died as a rising 3yo, her colt Trentham died unbroken.
 * 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.

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.


 * Vol. 2: April 1793
 * Vol 6: April 1795
 * Vol 15: 1800
 * Vol 22: 1803
 * Vol 23: Oct 1803-March 1804

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.


 * 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

 * 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).

Racing calendar

 * 1784
 * 1785
 * 1786

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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 1865
 * Magyar Méneskönyv 2002-2007

Bulgarian stud book

 * 80s to 2005
 * 2006-2009
 * 2009-2013

Belgian stud book

 * 2006-2008
 * 2009-2011

Saudi Arabian stud book

 * Volume 2 2000-2004
 * Volume 3 2005-2008
 * 2010 supplement

Turkish Stud book

 * supplement 4 2008
 * supplement 5 2009
 * supplement 6 2010
 * supplement 7 2011
 * supplement 8 2012