Hi all: I seem to recall that the 1933 grey stallion *Mahmoud (*Blenheim II - Mah Mahal) died in 1962, but does anyone know when his last crop was foaled? ...
Mahmoud was retired from stud duty after the 1958 breeding season, so the answer is 1959, assuming he wasn't totally infertile at the end. He died 18...
Mahmoud had nine foals in his final crop, foals of '59, including the multiple SW California 2yo filly Spark Plug, out of Voltage, by Menow. She was the only...
Thank you Tony - your prompt response is most appreciated! I'm relatively new to this group and am really impressed by the knowledgeable and friendly folks...
Dear Members, Can you help identify these horses. http://good-times.webshots.com/album/567497320PvYGhN Thanks in advance for your valuable help. Regards, ...
I work for the National Sporting Library and recently got a researcher inquiry from Mark Bellm in New Zealand (mdbellm@...) who is working on a book that...
I've posted an update to the Thoroughbred Heritage site ( http://www.tbheritage.com ). This issue includes two excellent essays on shipping horses overseas...
I hope everyone has checked out the latest update to the Thoroughbred Heritage site. I thought I had posted something on this when Pat first announced it a...
We have come into possession of a horse hoof crafted into an inkwell, with a silver shoe and silver coronet band on the lid, inscribed Mayfly, aged 25 years....
Hi, As you probably managed to find, Mayfly descend from Duke of Ancaster's stud. Her mare was foaled in 1755, and GSB states that "she was never trained but...
... Which Wynn family? From where? (I love these genealogical puzzles, even if it does take me an eternity to solve them.) Offhand, I can't see a Wynn, Wynne,...
Hello, We thank you so much for all that information. I did not expect to find such specifics of her early career and ownership.Certainly adds to the big...
Check this page: http://www.waders.in/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2154&Itemid=39 Are you sure that you have right mare? There are several...
Does anyone here know anything about North American steeplechasers of the 1800s? One which has caught my interest was a 'chaser from the 1870s named Milesian...
If anyone has ideas about the hoof/inkwell or has seen others, I would love to hear about it. I know of an Arabian stallion's hoof that was presented to a man...
... Almost as puzzling as the five (!) hooves said to have been Eclipse's. It's not clear to me which, or even how many, of these were made into inkwells. One...
Hi Sandy, Thanks for your help.I'm already getting somewhere on the wynn family. Our friends say the item was in the wynn family home for years and passed on...
What kind of freaked me out was when I heard that on the big stud farms, at
least, when a horse dies, the entire animal is not buried, only the head,
tail and...
The retention of a "hoof as an inkwell" was a feature of 19c taxidermy. When the famous stallion Musket (GB) (1867) by Toxophilite died on October 15th 1885,...
We are beginning our research with that Mayfly because inscribed on the inkwell is "Mayfly aged 25 years" Then on the inside of the hoof itself is inscribed...
Maybe the five hooves could be DNA tested, and the four that match each other are the real ones, and the fifth is someone else's. This reminds me of the two or...
Now this is really beginning to sound like the scattered relics of a saint! Mary Christine Incidentally, the remains of another famous Antipodean horse, Phar...
Thank you all for your valuable input! Does anyone know what the "Late Ward" below the naturalist's name on the bottom of the hoof means? [Non-text portions of...
In Lawrence, Kansas, at the university museum, is the stuffed remains of
Commanche, a horse ridden by one of Custer's officers. For many years, this
horse was...
Yes, I know- I hear that most of the horsemeat from the US goes to Europe.
So I imagine that is where the custom might have come from. Still, I cant
see...
I think that Mr. Geo. F. Butt, F.Z.S replaced "late [Edwin] Ward" on his position. That's the reason why I suspect that you have wrong Mayfly and that 1794...
... I had to go back and look up the original reference, which reads: "On the bottom there is a seal: Geo f Butt FZH (Late Ward) Naturalist to the Royal...
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