Standardbred Sport Horses - Hardcover

by Kathleen H. Kirsan (Author)

This book is a presentation of he multi-talented Standardbred to the sport horse breeder and competitior, with the goal of equipping the modern breeder to make the most of the sport talent and bloodlines it contains.

Key subjects covered:

* A study of sport traits through the millenniums and their concentrated transmission to the North American continent stock, and the development in the colonies of a true sport horse breed and a sport horse industry that produces prime racing, hunting and saddle stock.

* An overview of the DNA studies that apply to our sport product

* A historical evaluation of the sport horse development on our continent, divided into colonial, postrevolution, post Civil War, and modern day, wth a special emphasis on the strains that became the Standardbred, and its presence in the modern sport horse, including the continental warmblood.

* A discussion of important sport bloodline development with the concentrated carriers of the key components indentified so that the modern breeder can target the traits they want.

* An addressing, uncovering and documentation of the bias and blocking of American breeds and bloodlines in the EU backed breed industries, and the presenting of a strategy to overcome this unfairness in international sport.

* 694 pages, 208 full page pedigrees, 224 illustrations, full bibliography, 9 appendices