Although no longer responsible for the governance and regulation of the sport, it owns 14 of Britain's famous racecourses, including Aintree, Cheltenham and Newmarket, amongst other concerns such as the National Stud, and the property and land management company, Jockey Club Estates.

* The Irish National Stud farm ( Kildare town )

The county is famous for the quality of horses bred in the many stud farms to which it is home, including the Irish National Stud and many other top studs such as Gilltown, Moyglare and Kildangan Stud, and race horse training establishments, such as the Osborne Stables.

In 1967 Queen Elizabeth II opened The National Stud, a breeding centre for thoroughbred horses.

Ribot was foaled at the English National Stud on 27 February 1952.

* The National Stud and Japanese Gardens.

The property was purchased by Taylor and became known as The National Stud of Canada until he sold it and bought a new property in Oshawa he called Windfields Farm in honor of his first great champion.

The government-owned Irish National Stud, at Tully, Kildare, Co. Kildare, Ireland, has the skeleton of Arkle on display in its museum.

* Irish National Stud

The Irish National Stud is located on the edge of Kildare town, beside the famous Japanese Gardens.

* The Japanese Gardens at the Irish National Stud, Kildare, Co. Kildare

He was sold to Hungarian interests in 1873 and was brought to stand at the Hungarian National Stud, Kisber.

After the painstaking operation his racing career was over and he became a stallion at The National Stud in Newmarket.

Mill Reef died in 1986 and he is buried within the National Stud where a statue stands in his memory.

The following is inscribed on the plinth beneath his statue at the National Stud:

Locally trained horse Workman, trained by Jack Ruttle out of Hazelhatch Stud was the winner of the Aintree Grand National in 1939.

* Arnac-Pompadour, a commune of the Corrèze département of France, former marquisate, famous for its Château and its National Stud

To put this in context, as long ago as 1665, France established its first National Stud, which has become the Haras Nationaux, a network of 23 state-run stud farms dedicated to improving the quality of performance horse breeding.

It has been devised over many years by the French National Stud Haras Nationaux and, unusually, is applied to both Stallions and Mares.

* The French National Stud

The program's primary Anglo-Arab breeding farm, Pompadour National Anglo-Arab Stud, is located in Arnac-Pompadour, a commune of central France's Corrèze department, home to the famous Château de Pompadour.

The society changed its name in 1903 to Polo Pony and Riding Pony Stud book, and again in 1913 to the National Pony Society.

* Fjord horse National Stud Book Association Of Great Britain

* National Finch and Softbill Society A organization promoting breeding

In the United States, prior to the formation of adoption groups, over 20, 000 retired greyhounds a year were killed ; recent estimates still number in the thousands, with the industry claiming that about 90 % of National Greyhound Association-registered animals either being adopted, or returned for breeding purposes ( according to the industry numbers upwards of 2000 dogs are still euthanized annually in the US while anti-racing groups estimating the figure at closer to 12, 000.

Le Villaret, located in the Cevennes National Park in southern France and run by the Association Takh, is a breeding site for Przewalski Horses that was created to allow the free expression of natural Przewalski's horse behaviors.

Peruvian research universities, especially La Molina National Agrarian University, began experimental programs in the 1960s with the intention of breeding larger-sized guinea pigs.

Selawik is near the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, a breeding and resting area for migratory waterfowl.

President Herbert Hoover established the Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge in 1929 by naming three of the islands as a breeding ground for colonial birds.

During seven years of camera trapping, tracking, and observational data in Chitwan National Park, 6 to 9 breeding tigers, 2 to 16 non-breeding tigers, and 6 to 20 young tigers of less than one year of age were detected in the study area of.

In the United Kingdom, the government has put in place a National Scrapie Plan, which encourages breeding from sheep that are genetically more resistant to scrapie.

The only breeding populations are in Spain, and were thought to be only living in the Doñana National Park and in the Sierra de Andújar, Jaén.

In March 2009, the birth of three more kittens was announced ; they were born as part of the breeding program at Doñana National Park, in Huelva.

Studies of dogs, and dog related matters, are carried out and published: in general, by those who have mastered the relevant literature or aspects of it, and the formal structure of the subject ( National and International Kennel Club breeding, health, and show regulations etc ); in specific, by biologists, geneticists, zoologists, behaviourists, and others scientists, historians, veterinarians and breed specialists.

In coastal areas such as Plymouth, Cape Cod, Long Island, Sandy Hook, North Manitou Island in Lake Michigan, and most recently, Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, beach access to pedestrians and ORVs has been limited to protect piping plovers and their chicks at critical times of the breeding season.

Two adult rhinos with their calves were filmed in a motion-triggered video released on February 28, 2011 by WWF and Indonesia's National Park Authority, which proved it is still breeding in the wild.

In Brazil, humpbacks are observed off Salvador in Bahia State and at the National Marine Park of Abrolhos during their breeding season in austral winter and spring.

It is much rarer as a breeding bird, found only in a localised area of the Cairngorms National Park, where 1-3 pairs have bred since the 1970s.

In Colombia, as of 2007, a couple of Harpies composed of an adult male and a subadult female confiscated from wildlife trafficking were restored to the wild and monitored in Paramillo National Park in Córdoba, another couple being kept in captivity at a research center for breeding and eventual release.

While in earlier years, Whooping Crane chicks had been caught and banded ( in the breeding areas of Wood Buffalo National Park ), and it has delivered valuable insight into individual life history and behaviour of the cranes, this technique has been abandoned due to imminent danger for the cranes and the people performing the catching and banding activities.

The Australian National Kennel Council Ltd ( ANKC Ltd ) is the peak body in Australia responsible for promoting breeding, showing, trialling, obedience, and other canine-related activities and the ownership of temperamentally and physically sound purebred dogs by individuals across Australia.

The National Parks Service has initiated captive fox breeding programs on San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands, successfully increasing the numbers of resident foxes.

This grouse population is on the brink of extinction, so parts of the National Park are closed to the public during its breeding season.

The National Fancy Rat Society ( NFRS ), founded in 1976, is a UK-based club for rat fanciers that promotes fancy rats exhibitions, as well as the study and breeding of these rats.

However, in the Sierra National Forest there was an interaction between cover type and season on California Spotted Owl territory size, such that nonbreeding territories were larger than breeding territories in mixed-conifer forest but smaller in oak / pine woodland.

In coniferous forests of the Sierra National Forest, birds comprised 12. 9 % of the California Spotted Owl's diet during the breeding season but only 4. 6 % during the nonbreeding season.