Sentence examples for the general stud from inspiring English sources
Over time his family's firm became central to racing, maintaining the general stud book a registry of thoroughbred horses and acting as a central administrator and bank to the industry.
Although Weatherby's first book specifically denied that it was either complete or free from error, the General Stud Book soon became the supreme authority on Thoroughbred pedigrees.
The preeminence of English racing and hence of the General Stud Book from 1791 provided a standard for judging a horse's breeding (and thereby, at least to some degree, its racing qualities).
Porter was also involved in attempts to publish an American stud book for race horses in the United States, similar to the General Stud Book that was published in England documenting the pedigrees of Thoroughbred horses.
In 1913 the Jockey Club and the owners of the General Stud Book passed a regulation named by the foreign press after the Jockey Club's senior steward, Lord Jersey, prohibiting the registration of horses in the book unless all of their ancestors had been registered.
The Jersey Act was introduced to prevent the registration of most American-bred Thoroughbred horses in the British General Stud Book.
Most studbooks are patterned after the British General Stud Book for Thoroughbred horses, first published in 1791 by James Weatherby, whose descendants have continued to produce it on behalf of the Jockey Club.
In 1791 Weatherby published An Introduction to a General Stud Book, the pedigrees being based on earlier Racing Calendars and sales papers.
General Stud Book, in horse breeding, prototype of the breeding record of purebred horses, or studbook.
Following her advice, Will "recruits" quarterback and general stud Finn (Cory Monteith), a young man with a passion for excellence and, it turns out, Journey.
Only the proliferation of nose-studs and the general air of naive good order made it clear that these students were mostly the children of the 60s children, and that the clothes might have been pilfered from their mothers' attics.
