ORIGINS OF THE THOROUGHBRED
“A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.”
- Federico Tesio -
n this our first edition, it is fitting that we have a look at some of the history of the thoroughbred. It is a unique animal, and one that we need to know the origins of if we want to understand it better. The thoroughbred is unique in that the breed was established fundamentally for one purpose, and that was to race. Almost any individual horse can be traced back to its original foundations of a handful of ancestors that were specifically brought to Britain in order to introduce characteristics that were considered important to
