Dear Sir, I read your post with interest and agree that a sires "good" need be determined by the number of winners he gets, and that the statistic of leading...
Percent of winners to runners is more important than number of winners, as we've learned in an era where one stallion can get 230 foals a year and another just...
Hey, now that Better Than Honour has produced two Belmont Stakes winners in a row, I was wondering what other mares have done similarly - because when the...
Hi While it appears that no mare has borne two individual winners of the Kentucky Derby, Better Than Honour's Belmont Stakes feat as a dam is not unique in...
How's this for a broodmare? Maggie B.B. produced not only Panique (Belmont) and Harold (Belmont) but also Iroquois (Derby Stakes) Cinderella produced Plaudit...
I was looking over the Belmont stakes winners listings and then found an article on fillies who've competed: Flambino placed 3rd in the race in 1927 and went...
Keith and Anne - thank you for your responses! The accomplishment of great mares like these isn't much acknowledged on general broadcasts. I was happy that...
I have in hand a stud poster for "Young Herod" with contemporary manuscript date "May 8, 1800". I'm trying to identify the horse, and thereby, the place this...
Cannot find any reference to a Young Herod. However, S.D. Bruce in The Thoroughbred Horse provides a pedigree chart and dates for Herod (Called also King...
I found this a totally intriguing question. Searching for an answer, I encountered a mass of contradictions. Here's what I found -- and didn't find: (1) no...
Holly: I have looked into what sons of Herod (GB) out of Regulus mares are listed on the thoroughbred pedigree database, and there immediately is some concern....
More and more information keeps coming in! Thank you all so much for your help. I'd found some of these sources, but you can understand my confusion when...
... Hi Sandy, I'm 'flying blind' b/c my copy of EATS is packed at the moment, but am pretty sure the chronological chain of ownership/place given therein for...
... Ahah! Apparently I misread the "WI" after John Thorp's name as "Wisconsin" when I should have read it as "West Indies". It looks like the U.S. Post Office...
... Hi Sandy, I didn't mean to imply that Harpur's Herod (x Herod 1758) was ever exported, at least to the USA. As I recall, Harrison established that that...
Hello Holly, Battell 3:194 records an imported Young Herod: 'Herod [Young] chestnut, 15 1/4 hands, bred by Sir H Harper, England; got by King Herod: dam said...
Re Stud dates as per Keylock Charts: Herod (1758) Tartar (1743) Partner (1718) Jigg (???) The Byerley Turk (???) Keith Binney ... From: Sandra K. Snider To:...
Hello Chris, I'm getting quite an education here, and building a bibliography of horse sources. Stupid question: what it the full citation for Battell? This is...
I think I just answered my own question. BATTELL, Joseph: The American Stallion Register, 5 volumes, Middlebury, Vermont, 1909-1936. Right? ... horse sources....
Hello Holly, ... BATTELL, Joseph: The American Stallion Register, 5 volumes, Middlebury, Vermont, 1909-1936. Right? That's the one. Thanks for sending the full...
I would like to thank all my informants in the group for their help this week. I admit that my interest in Young Herod has more to do with early American...
Collaborators Oh my goodness, I think some of our coat color enthusiasts may want to be acknowledged about this case. If one clicks to the following site: ...
I recently acquired a thoroughbred and the only history I have on him is his tattoo. What is the best...and cheapest way to go about tracing some info...Thanks...
I recently used the Jockey Club to research my thoroughbred who is a senior and tattoo was hard to read. I receieved some good advice from various people....
