Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World (First Edition)

CHURCHILL, Jennifer, Andrew REICHARD & Byron ROGERS. Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World: A Profile of the 20th Century's Most Successful Sires, Their Sire Sons and Grandsons, in the Major Thoroughbred Breeding Countries of the World. Richmond, NSW: The Australian Bloodhorse Review, 2006.

Large, thick 4to (34 × 24 cm). Original publisher's black leatherette. Pictorial dust jacket. v, 981 pp., profusely illustrated in colour throughout. First edition.

The thoroughbred stallion is the engine of the breeding industry — the animal through whose male line the entire pedigree of modern racing flows, and whose capacity to transmit speed, stamina, and soundness across generations determines the future of the breed more than any other single factor. To document the 205 stallions who shaped that breed over the course of the twentieth century, across eleven of the world's major racing nations, is an undertaking of formidable complexity, and Great Thoroughbred Sires of the World approaches it with the ambition and the resources the subject demands.

The result of a collaboration between publisher Andrew Reichard, editor Jennifer Churchill — herself the editor of the Australian Bloodhorse Review's highly regarded annual Stallions sires register — and Byron Rogers, formerly of Arrowfield Stud and Taylor Made Farm, the book drew on fifty-seven specialist writers from across the globe to produce in-depth profiles of each stallion's racing career, stud record, broodmare sire statistics, and the achievements of his most significant sire sons and descendants. The roster reads as a roll-call of the century's greatest sires: Northern Dancer, Hyperion, Nearco, Sir Gallahad III, Bull Lea, Nasrullah, Bold Ruler, Secretariat, Danzig, Mr. Prospector, Sadler's Wells — stallions whose influence on the modern thoroughbred is so pervasive that virtually every horse racing today carries their blood in significant quantities.

Covering Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, North America, South America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, and printed on high-grade art paper with colour illustration throughout, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on thoroughbred stallions ever published.

Near fine. Some very mild imperfections to dust jacket covers and some spotting to the inner faces. A few spots to the lower title page; otherwise in fine condition throughout, well preserved and presenting beautifully.

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Catalogue Number: HH000468