* The term " thoroughbred " is first used in the United States in an advertisement in a Kentucky gazette to describe a New Jersey stallion called Pilgarlick.

* December 25 – Godolphin Arabian, thoroughbred stallion ( b. c. 1724 )

* Byerley Turk, thoroughbred stallion ( b. c. 1684 )

The thieves, who had no prior experience with the nervous, highly-strung nature of a thoroughbred stallion, were unable to handle him.

The San Geronimo Valley derives its name from the San Geronimo Ranch, established by Adolph Mailliard and Ann Eliza Ward in 1868, where they bred thoroughbred horses, including the famous stallion Monday who sired most of the race horses in California.

* Subordination ( horse ), a thoroughbred racehorse and stallion

* Fred Thompson as Sir Trenton, an arrogant black thoroughbred stallion who sees his son, Pride, as having no purpose other than to carry on the Trenton legacy.

* Fastnet Rock ( horse ), an Australian thoroughbred racehorse stallion

Shahrastani was put down in December 2011 at Walton Fields Stud in Grimston, Leicestershire because of deteriorating health, having retired from stallion duties a year earlier. He was twenty-eight years old, an advanced age for a thoroughbred.

* Coastal ( horse ) ( 1976 – 2005 ), American thoroughbred stallion racehorse

When Berger died in 1974, Félix inherited his multi-million dollar thoroughbred horse racing stable.

Kirkwood in turn died of a heart attack in 1927 in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he had gone to sell thoroughbred horses.

Cordero's wife, Marjorie Clayton Cordero, who was also a well-known figure in New York's thoroughbred racing, died in January 2001.

It is within the Inner Blue Grass region, which was the center of farming and blooded stock raising, including thoroughbred horses.

Australia has also adopted American-style innovations in dividing its purses in thoroughbred horse races, paying the top eight finishers at some tracks and even ten at others, with the awards for 6th through 8th ( or 6th through 10th ) the same regardless of the actual placing within that segment — sometimes 1 % each, other times a fixed dollar amount.

The Preakness is the second leg in American thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown series and almost always attracts the Kentucky Derby winner, some of the other horses that ran in the Derby, and often a few horses that did not start in the Derby.

Steeplechase races were held at Woodbine / Greenwood for a few years ; There was a thoroughbred race announcer by the name of Foster " Buck " dryden for several years.

In recent years, however, several horses with no Solid or Professional chefs-de-race in the first four generations of their pedigrees — and indeed, a few with Dosage Indexes of above 4. 00 — have managed to win the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, highlighting the issue of increasing speed and decreasing stamina in contemporary American thoroughbred pedigrees.

His love of horses led to the establishing of Parkwood Stable, a thoroughbred horse racing and breeding farm located a few miles north of Oshawa, Ontario.

In March 2010, it was announced that Monmouth Park would shorten its summer meet, conducting only 50 days of live racing ( down from 141 total thoroughbred days in the state ) for a total of $ 50 million in purse money.

Six days after his stroke, he left the hospital and decided to sell forty-two of his thoroughbred racehorses.

In the lead, Ruffian broke a leg and, after an unsuccessful operation to save her, the horse widely believed to have been the greatest thoroughbred filly ever was humanely put down.

O ' Reilly shortly after married Chryss Goulandris ( sometimes " Chryssanthi ( n ) e " or Christina ), a Greek shipping heiress some years his junior, who breeds and races thoroughbred horses, and whom he first met in New York, when she accompanied her brother to a business meeting.

The prominent American sportsman John W. Galbreath ( 1897-1988 ), owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball club as well as the Darby Dan Farm thoroughbred horse racing operation, owned a summer retreat here and named one of his horses after the village.

In 1976 he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in the United States after he broke thoroughbred racing's all-time money-winning record for a single year.

In addition, had the horse been in the United States, he may well have been given a proper home at the Kentucky Horse Park's Hall of Champions in Lexington as was done after the retired champion thoroughbred Cigar was found to be infertile at stud.

The eldest daughter, Selene Harding ( 1846 – 1892 ), married Jackson County, TN resident General William Hicks Jackson on December 15, 1868 after the Civil War ended, and they moved to Belle Meade where Red Jackson co-managed the business affairs of the Belle Meade Estate with his new father-in-law, General William Giles Harding ; the two men expanded the estate into a world class thoroughbred horse farm.

A champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse ( see Schillaci ) was named after him following his performances at the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

The curse was also said to include Bensalem-Township-based thoroughbred racehorse Smarty Jones, who saw his bid for horse racing's Triple Crown disappear when he finished second in the 2004 Belmont Stakes after victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.

The racetrack is nicknamed " Old Hilltop " after a small rise in the infield that became a favorite gathering place for thoroughbred trainers and race enthusiasts.

He began training quarter horses in California in 1968 and after ten years of considerable achievement that saw him train 24 world champions, he switched to training thoroughbred race horses.

The name of New Zealand's most celebrated thoroughbred horse, Phar Lap, derives from the shared Zhuang and Thai word for lightning.

Live thoroughbred horse racing takes place at the park every year from late July through mid-September ; races from other tracks are simulcast throughout the year.

A significant motivation was to gain tax revenues from the DRC ( Detroit Race Course ), which was Michigan's only thoroughbred horse racetrack that closed in 1998.

A fan of thoroughbred horse racing, Mervyn LeRoy was a founding investor in Hollywood Park Racetrack and a member of the track's Board of Directors from 1941 until his death in 1986.

His daughter Mary Slack resides predominantly at Brenthurst, but has houses in Muizenberg and London, and a commercially successful thoroughbred breeding farm situated about an hour-and-a-half north from Cape Town.

* Chatham ( horse ), Australian thoroughbred racehorse who raced from 1931 to 1934

Harness racing dates were transferred from Thorncliffe Park Raceway to Old Woodbine to fill the gap between the spring and fall thoroughbred meets, and the track was known as Greenwood Raceway during the harness meet.

* Kelso ( horse ), a thoroughbred racehorse from the United States

It has used proceeds from races and its auctions to further the thoroughbred industry as well as to contribute to the surrounding community.

Her father was Tug Farish from Lane's End Farm in Kentucky, better known for its thoroughbred horse breeding program.

He was a horse racing enthusiast, and purchased a thoroughbred named Messenger, who had been brought from England to America in 1788.

He took over a thoroughbred racing stable from his father and expanded it, winning a number of races, including the St. Leger Stakes in 1927.

Leno had begun living out his dream of breeding and racing thoroughbred horses and began distancing himself from the grocery business.

On 4 April 2008, McGauran announced he would shortly be resigning from parliament, citing plans to pursue interests in the thoroughbred racing industry.

The instant he walked out of a pavilion, white-spotted blue handkerchief showing from his right pocket, bat tucked underarm, cap at a hint of an angle, he was identifiable as a thoroughbred.

The track was home to thoroughbred horse racing and harness racing from 1917 until 1952 when it was sold for real estate development.

Smythe learned about the business and went into breeding, buying mares in foal from top thoroughbred lines, and hiring future Hall of Fame trainer Yonnie Starr.

King has also received praise from former team mate and Sky Sports pundit Jamie Redknapp, saying that “ He is like a magnet for the ball, a thoroughbred of a defender, the best centre-half in the country .”.

Hollywood Park is a thoroughbred race course and poker card room in Inglewood, California, about three miles ( 5 km ) from Los Angeles International Airport and adjacent to the Forum.

Two examples were thoroughbred racehorses and show animals from Stansted, England to the Melbourne Cup, as well as breeding stock cattle ( milk supply ) to nations such as Japan and Thailand.