English thorough-bred
The English Pur-sang ( in Thoroughbred in English) is an equine race . Official name is thorough-bred , the official abbreviation is PS , name English thorough-bred being, with the eyes of the purists, a pleonasm.
This race is rather recent, it is resulting from crossings between local mares of the Arab United Kingdom and thorough-bred. It is an example of success of selective breeding and its influence as ameliorative became as important as for the Arab thorough-bred.
Many facts make it possible to make go up its origin with the influence of 3 standards between the end of 17th and the beginning of the 18th century:
- Byerley Turck, Arab thorough-bred, ancestor of Herod, founder of a paramount line of English thorough-bred.
- Darley Arabian, Arab thoroughbred, father of the first large racehorse, Flying Childers and ancestor of legendary the Eclipse, founder of the lines of St Simon, Gainsborough and Blandford. It is the first Cheval registers with the stud-book.
- Godolphin Barb or Arabian, Bores, grandfather of Matchem.
However, of the disputes exist between the membership of these horses to the Arab race thorough-bred or the race Barbe. The characteristics of the race were established in less than one century and remained unchanged.
The English thorough-bred arrived in France under the Restauration with the fashion of the races in which it was essential very quickly in front of the saddle horses French, not selected for the sport. The French breeding was established mainly in Normandy, especially in the Orne and the Calvados. It is about a breeding of excellent quality.
The horse-races constitute its field of predilection, mainly the races of gallop, but also the races of hedges and steeple drives out. Some racehorses reach astronomical prices, often front to even begin because of the hopes placed in them (for example 13,1 million dollars for Seattle Dancer in 1985) because they can pay in race to their owner of the colossal profits. The best of them will be used as reproducer after their career of candidate, at least for the standards.
He also excels in complete contest and can be employed in Saut of obstacles and, to a lesser extent, in raising. The thorough-bred measure on average 1,65 meters, and up to 1,80 m for largest.
Equipped with an exceptional aptitude for the race and speed, the English thorough-bred is n the other hand a horse very nervous and rather fragile, which can be explained by the efforts and risks to which it is exposed in competition. The English thorough-bred can early begin its career, for the flat races (as from two years) and at relatively short distances. While growing, it is subjected to longer distances and can not hold its promises. An English thorough-bred which does not excel on the dish generally is redirected on obstacle races and possibly castrated if it is about a too nervous standard whose chances to be an excellent candidate while remaining whole seem weak.
Best the English thorough-bred clash at the time of the Triumphal arch, of the Prix of the Jockey-Club (reserved with the 3 year old males), of the price of Diane (reserved with the three year old females), of the Derby of Epsom, the Breeders' Cup Classic, the Japan Cup.
Among best the thorough-bred of the history of the flat races, one can quote Sea Bird, Nijinsky, Brigadier Gerald, Ribot, Secretariat, Man O' War, Mill Reef, Dancing Faces or the standard of the century, Northern Dancer.
Simple: Thoroughbred