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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Thoroughbred ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Thoroughbred Book Search: Thoroughbred Description The Thoroughbred is most renowned for its huge popularity in the racing and breeding industry. It is the fastest and most valuable of the world's breeds. The Thoroughbred is a result of the crossing of imported Arabian stallions with the native stock of running horses during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Monarchs such as Henry VII and Charles II founded Royal studs where these running horses were established by crossbreeding Spanish and Italian imports with the Irish Hobby and the Scottish Galloway reinforcing the oriental blood.There are three stallions that are the foundation of the breed - the Byerley Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Arabian. They are responsible for the first four great Thoroughbred lines. These lines are Herod, Eclipse, Matchem, and Highflyer (Herod's son). The Byerley Turk was caught in the Battle of Buda by Robert Byerley and ridden in 1690 in the Battle of Boyne. In 1704 the Darley Arabian came from Aleppo and stood in Yorkshire. Darley Arabian is the sire of the first great race horse, Flying Childers, and the originator of the Eclipse line. The Godolphin Arabian was brought to England in 1728 and is responsible for the Matchem line. Google Ads

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