The Blood Horse
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| description | Trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | English thoroughbreds |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Blood-Horse Publications ( United States ) |
| First edition | 1916 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Editor-in-chief | Eric Mitchell |
| Web link | www.bloodhorse.com |
| ISSN |
0006-4998 |
The Blood-Horse is a weekly, English-language trade magazine with a focus on horse breeding and horse racing , with the English thoroughbreds being the focus of reporting. In addition to articles on races, the associated analyzes and discussions as well as event announcements, The Blood-Horse also contains investigative reports, information on, for example, pedigrees, medical aspects, farm management and news from the breeding scene and also profiles of individual horses.
Founded in 1916, the renowned journal is the oldest continuously published journal in this field in North America. It is published in Lexington , Kentucky ("Horse Capital of the World") by Blood-Horse Publications - in cooperation with the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), which is also located there.
For the millennium , the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 US Racehorses of the 20th Century was published . In July 2003, The Blood-Horse received great praise from various quarters for a report on the secret slaughter of the racing horse Ferdinand in Japan , which was successful in the 1980s , after he had not produced the desired breeding results. The article was the trigger for the introduction of the "Ferdinand Fee" in 2006. This small, voluntary contribution to races benefits the two organizations Bluegrass Charities and Thoroughbred Charities of America, which take care of the bread of grace for aged thoroughbreds.