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Froggerlaura's basic list of sources for researching topics on early (18-19th century) horse-racing or Thoroughbred pedigrees. Most are links to Google Books, but a few come from the excellent free searchable database HathiTrust.

British horse-racing

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From American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine "Obituary of celebrated turf horses." May 1833 vol.4 (9): pp.441-442:

  • Cedric died in 1829 of inflammation- "covered three seasons but never got a foal"
  • Election in 1821 at Euston Hall from inflammation
  • Engineer in 1782
  • Octavius early in the year 1831
  • Orville was shot Nov. 1826
  • Smolensko on Jan. 10, 1829
  • Trumpetor at Newmarket on May 7, 1808
  • Waxy Pope at Clearwell on Aug 29, 1831
  • Whalebone "broke a blood vessel Feb 5 1831 after covering Ogress and died the next day" Feb 6 1831
  • Whisker March 11 1832 "he covered a few mares that season"

from Volume 3(3):107-112

  • Gohanna in April 1815 immediately after covering Shoestring (mare missed)
  • Skyscraper December 1807
  • Williamson's Ditto 1821
  • Worthy after the season of 1814
  • White Knight died on 20 May 1922- GSB v25, 1925, p.1144
  • Fille de l'Air died in 1878 at age 17 [1].
  • Placida was alive in 1892 [2].
  • Death of Pitsford from colic in Dec 1862 [3].

Oaks winners GSB enteries

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  • Bridget, 1776, last foal was Sir Harry Derby winner in 1795 no death date
  • Tetotum, Lady Bolingbroke's first foal, last foal in 1800 for O'Kelly [4]
  • Faith, last foal 1796. Faith died in 1799, her filly sister to Bobtail died as a rising 3yo, her colt Trentham died unbroken.[1]
  • Ceres, last foal 1794
  • Maid of the Oaks, last foal 1797, died on passage to America
  • Stella- no record?
  • Trifle last foal 1803, ran in Ireland
  • Yellow Filly died summer 1805
  • Annette last foal 1804
  • Nightshade last foal 1803
  • Tag last foal 1803
  • Hippolyta last foal 1798
  • Portia last foal 1807
  • Volante no stud record
  • Caelia
  • Hermione- died while trying to foal a large colt, only produce was filly Kitty Bean (death year not given)
  • Platina- died early 1820
  • Nike last foal 1815
  • Bellissima last foal in 1810
  • Bellina
  • Ephemera
  • Princess Dorrie died in 1927 -General Stud Book, XXVL (1929), p. 813.

The death of Formosa was reported in March 1881 soon after she was purchased by M. Lefevre and exported to France.[2]

Sporting Magazine

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Published from 1792 to 1870 (united with New Sporting Magazine in 1846). Good source for early nineteenth century British horse-racing, commentary can be unreliable. The full list.

New Sporting Magazine

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Taunton Chronicles

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  • Volume 1 (1702-1797)
  • Volume 2 (1797-1824)
  • Volume 3 (1824-1842)
  • Volume 4 (1842-1870)

American horse-racing

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Useful publications on early American horse-racing.

American Turf Register

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Like it's British counterpart Sporting Magazine- racing/hunting commentary of the day.

Books

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Newspaper databases (free of course)

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  • The Daily Racing Form- Invaluable resource that covers all aspects of American horse racing from 1896 to the 1980s. Note: all issues belonging to Kentuckiana Library/Keeneland Library have not been uploaded to the archives (some years have no uploaded issues).
  • Old Fulton NY Postcards- not really about postcards at all. One of the most comprehensive early American newspaper databases I have found, though searching it can be a pain (no way to narrow search by date).

Stud books

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Racing calendar

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The turf register, and sportsman & breeder's stud-book

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Studbook of New South Wales

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German/Prussian Stud book

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General Stud Book

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American Stud Book

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  • Ping me at my talk page if you need info from the 1910, 1924 or 1932 American stud books.

Stud Book Francais

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Other

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Reorganized volumes

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Cyprian Stud Book

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  • Volume 2 (1968-1994)
  • Volume 3 (1995-1999)
  • Volume 4 (2000-2004)
  • Volume 5 (2005-2009)
  • Volume 6 (2010-2014)

Hungarian Stud Book

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Bulgarian stud book

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Belgian stud book

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Saudi Arabian stud book

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Turkish Stud book

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  1. ^ Weatherby (1800). "Faith". The supplement to The general stud-book, being the produce of mares, continued to 1799, inclusive: 17.
  2. ^ Merlin (12 March 1881). "Sporting notes". Launceston Examiner. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
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