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STANDARDBRED SPORT HORSES by Kathleen H. Kirsan
First and foremost this is a reference, history, and evaluation of the American Standardbred for the North American sport horse breeder and competitor. With ample documentation through historical sources, pedigree evaluation, DNA studies, and performance records you will learn that the Standardbred is not just a harness prospect, but in fact is one of the best all-around ridden sport horse breeds--and has always been so right from its creation.
This book provides much evidence on the true origin of equine sport, not just in the American breeds but worldwide as well. Sport talent is identified in these breed's ancestors and followed right down through the generations to the modern potent carriers. And you will discover these talented sport sources did not just power our best achievers, but top European competition horses and provided leading sire lines in worldwide sport, winning for WBFSH members even while being systematically banned from the European product. You will meet contemporary competitors from around the world riding Standardbreds to victory in open competitions in all manner of Olympic style sport. With the knowledge provided, the sport horse breeder will be able to choose with confidence the bloodlines best suited for their goals.
Several topics which were discussed and enlarged in my previous two books come to completion here, such as the origin of the jump trait which is the power behind every successful modern jumping horse, is traced back through its major branches right to its root. More data is compiled about the true foundation of dressage ability. Another subject covered is the crisis the American breeder of sport horses finds themselves in our new international arena, with some surprisingly simple solutions provided.
Throughout the book there are over 200 pictures and over 200 full page pedigrees, as well nine appendices, a full bibliography and three indexes.
Kathleen Kirsan is an equine writer with a well-respected website: sport-horse-breeder.com, and is the author of three books on the sport horse: North American Sport Horse Breeder, Legacy of Lexington and now Standardbred Sport Horses. An expert on Tesio Methods, sport horse pedigrees and sport horse history, she is often consulted by individuals and breed organizations. She is instrumental in returning the lost knowledge of the first American sport horse breed, the Running Horse, back to the American equestrian, and has unraveled other mysteries such as the origin of the jumping trait--all through decades of historical and pedigree research. She is an outspoken critic on the monopoly the European Union has attempted in sport horse breeding.
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From the Author
It has taken decades of study, database building, research, writing and breeding to arrive at this book. Standardbred Sport Horses needed to be written because the sport horse breeder is unaware of the huge genetic potential that is found in the Standardbred (and our other domestic breeds) for their use and benefit. Also it is important to rekindle pride in our domestic breeders that they are continuing an unbroken sport horse breeding tradition that began in 1611 in our colonies. North America from the moment of its first settlements bred the finest sport horse stock in the world. If that statement puzzles you then you need to read this book.
Standardbred Sport Horses is my third book and it continues all the themes covered in the first two and enlarges them. And it is meant as a record and a reference of our North American sport horse heritage, and the resultant bloodlines that power modern sport today. It is my strong belief that the North American breeder needs to understand where equine sport ability arises from and to rediscover their own equine heritage so that they may become aware of the fantastic resource that is right in front of them--unrecognized and therefore underutilized, in order that they meet and exceed the breeding challenges of our day.
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This book is a presentation of the multi-talented Standardbred to the sport horse breeder and competitor, with a goal of the 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 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, post-revolution, post-civil war and modern day, with 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 identified so that the modern breeder can target the traits they want.
- 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 7-generation pedigrees, 224 illustrations, full bibliography, 9 appendices
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- PublisherDog Ear Publishing, LLC
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1457564076
- ISBN 13 9781457564079
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages694
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