Where did the American Throughbred come from?

Answer 1

This site has some great information that covers all sorts of neat stuff about Throughbreds.
http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/tbred.html

NOTE: for know it all aniMALuVA the American Throughbred is not an American orginal.
Their ancestry traces back to three foundation sires -- the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerly Turk. Named after their respective owners -- Thomas Darley, Lord Godolphin and Captain Robert Byerly -- these three stallions were brought to England from the Mediterranean Middle East

Answer 2

America. Sorry - I had to say that. I have a relatively new Horse and Pony Encyclopedia, but it doesn't have any information at all about the "American" Thoroughbred. The Thoroughbred originated in Britian. Their early race horses were believed to be a combination of Spanish, Nepolitan, and Barb blood with contributions from the Irish Hobby. The formation of the Thoroghbred is largely attributed to 3 Eastern horses: Byerley Turk ( a Turkmene horse), Darley Arabrian, and Godolphin Arabian (who was a Barb horse and not an Arabian). They were the sires of the first 3 great Thoroughbred lines.

Answer 3

All modern Thoroughbreds have as common ancestors one or more of three stallions, the Byerly Turk, the Darley Arabian, and the Godolphin Barb, which were imported into Great Britain from the Middle East and North Africa between 1689 and 1724. Mated with strong English mares, they produced offspring with both speed and endurance. Thoroughbreds that compete in organized racing are registered in the official national stud books, or pedigree registers, of their country of birth. The British stud book was begun in 1791. Stud records in the United States date from 1873

Answer 4

This one will require some research, but basically the 'American Thoroughbred' came over from europe where they had taken the Araibian breed and crossed it with other breeds and breeds native to Europe and came out with what is known as the Thoroughbred. It was then imported to the Americas where we did a little of our own tampering, like crossing it with the Quarter horse to get faster start times in races. You can still trace the geneology back to the Arabian ancestry. It is quite intersesting the changes made over the centuries to these magnificent animals, I highly recommend you look up the Thoroughbred registry and do a little reseaerch on your own. :)

Answer 5

The first Thoroughbred horse in the American Colonies was Bulle Rock, imported by Samuel Gist of Hanover County, Virginia, in 1730.

Maryland and Virginia were the centers of Colonial thoroughbred breeding.


source-Wikipedia.org

Answer 6

America

Answer 7

Duh! America!!!