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• The stud farm or Hints on breeding for the turf, the chase, and the road : addressed to breeders of race-horses and hunters to landed proprietors and especially to tenant farmers (George Routledge & Sons the Broadway, Ludgate ;, 1873), by Cecil, James Ballantyne and Co, and George Routledge and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breeder's guide (Bibliothéque de L'Établissement Chéri ;, 1913), by Chéri R. Halbronn and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The horse, in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease (Porter & Coates, 1871), by J. H. Walsh, John Elderkin, and Ellwood Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The thoroughbred : his breeding and rearing (William Brooks & Co., 1911), by C. S. McPhillamy and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The horse, in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease (Porter & Coates, 1871), by J. H. Walsh, John Elderkin, and Ellwood Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)

• A T Reid memorial refresher course (Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, 2000), by University of Sydney. Post-Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science (page images at HathiTrust)

• Breeding and developing the trotter. (American Horse Breeder Pub. Co., 1906), by John Bradburn and Arthur Caton Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thoroughbred race-horse, its breeding & early management (Tavistock Press, Sports & Sportsmen ltd., 1927), by James Edward Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gift of the grass; being the autobiography of a famous racing horse (Little, Brown, and Company, 1911), by John Trotwood Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short history of the American trotting and pacing horse ... (Coates & Co., 1901), by Henry T. Coates, A. M. Gillam, and George Fleming (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial gallery of English race horses : containing portraits of all the winners of the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger Stakes, during the last twenty years ; and a history of the principal operations of the turf (Henry G. Bohn, 1850), by George Tattersall, Abraham Cooper, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on breeding for the turf : containing also remarks on the comparative excellence of the English race horse of the present day and former times, with an account of the foreign stallions and mares imported into England, and the performances of their produce on the turf (G. Whittaker, 1825), by Nicholas Hanckey Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern racehorse : conformation, breeding and heredity (Scribner, 1923), by P. E. Ricketts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous horses of America. Containing fifty-nine portraits of the celebrities of the American turf, past and present. With short biographies. (Porter and Coates, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portraits of celebrated racehorses of the past and present centuries: in strictly chronological order, commencing in 1702 and ending in 1870 together with their respective pedigrees and performances recorded in full (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887), by T. H. Taunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous horses, with portraits, pedigrees, principal performances, description of races and various interesting items extending over a period of nearly two centuries (Sampson Low, Marston, 1901), by Theophilus William Taunton and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Galicia : her forbears and her offspring (Longmans, Green and Co., 1915), by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Green; yellow sleeves belt and cap (Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London Fourth Avenue and 30th Street, New York ; Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, 1919), by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Famous running horses, their forebears and descendants. (Infantry Journal Press, 1949), by John Furman Wall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Polka (M. Gray, 1872), by Carl Hess (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern racehorse : conformation, breeding and heredity (Constable, 1923), by P. E. Ricketts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The turf register and sportsman & breeder's stud-book : containing the pedigrees & performances of all the horses, mares, and geldings that have appeared upon the British and Irish turfs as racers : likewise of such as have been kept in the stud as stallions and for breeding ... (A. Bartholoman, 1803), by W. Pick and R. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America (G.E. Woodward, 1871), by Henry William Herbert, S. D. Bruce, and B. G. Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America (G.E. Woodward, 1871), by Henry William Herbert, S. D. Bruce, and B. G. Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Racehorses in Australia (Art in Australia, 1922), by W. H. Lang and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers ... (London : [s.n.], 1695), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The high mettled racer (William Kidd, 1831), by Charles Dibdin, Robert Cruikshank, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sportsman's repository, or, A correct delineation of the horse & dog (Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1820), by John Lawrence, William Wilson, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pretty Polly : the history of her career on the turf (John Lane the Bodley Head ;, 1907), by Joscelyne Lechmere and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The American racing manual (Daily Racing Form, 1906), by Daily Racing Form (page images at HathiTrust)

• International trade : restrictions on U.S. racehorses in foreign country races : report to the Honorable Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senate (The Office ;, 1992), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The gait of the American trotter and pacer : an analysis of their gait by a new method and an investigation of the general principles concerning the proper balancing of motion action and extension (W. R. Jenkins Co., 1910), by Rudolf Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The compleat jockey : or, the most exact rules and methods to be observ'd in training up of race horses (Woodstock Press, 1933), by Gervase Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le cheval de course; élevage, hygiène, entrainement, maladies. (Baillière, 1925), by Henry Joseph Gobert and Paul Cagny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to train the race horse (Low, Marston, 1892), by Frederick Tynte Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The racehorse in training : with hints on racing and racing reforms (Chapman & Hall, 1880), by William Day and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training thoroughbred horses (The Blood-horse, 1953), by Preston M. Burch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The horse, in the stable and the field : his management in health and disease (Porter & Coates, 1871), by J. H. Walsh, John Elderkin, and Ellwood Harvey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Complete jockey, or, The most exact rules and methods to be observed for the training up of race-horses shewing how to prepare them for any heats or courses, with the manner of their keepings, instructions for their dressing and looking to their scourings, diets, matches, and racings, with every particular to be observed therein ... : to which is added, the most experienced way for buying horses, and instructions to avoid being cheated upon the like occasion, with a relation of the cheats and tricks the jockies and horse-coursers put on the unexpert buyers ... (London : [s.n.], 1695), by Gervase Markham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The American race-turf register, sportsman's herald, and general stud book : containing the pedigrees of the most celebrated horses, mares, and geldings, that have distinguished themselves as racers on the American turf from one quarter of a mile race up to four miles and repeat; also, such as have been kept in the stud - as stallions and mares for breeding, from the earliest period to the present time: and from which have descended the most valuable blooded stock at present in the United States ... (Press of Henry Mason, 1833), by Patrick Nisbett Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American race-turf register, sportsman's herald, and general stud book : containing the pedigrees of the most celebrated horses, mares, and geldings, that have distinguished themselves as racers on the American turf ... : the whole calculated for the use and information of amateurs, breeders, and trainers of that most noble and useful animal, the horse (Press of Henry Mason, 76 Maiden Lane, Printed for the Proprietors, Patrick N. Edgar & Co., 1833), by Patrick Nisbett Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)

• National register of pacing horses. (National Standard Pacing Horse Breeders , 1891), by Thomas C. Parsons and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern racehorse : conformation, breeding and heredity (Constable, 1923), by P. E. Ricketts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lost in the land of ice : or, Daring adventures around the South Pole (Grosset & Dunlap, 1902), by Edward Stratemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album of celebrated American and English running horses. (Kinney Bros., 1888), by Kinney Bros and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eclipse and O'Kelly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of That Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789), of His Breeder the Duke of Cumberland and of his subsequent owners William Wildman, Dennis O'Kelly and Andrew O'Kelly, Now For the First Time Set Forth From the Original Authorities and Family Memoranda (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Theodore Andrea Cook
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• The thoroughbred in the lower Shenandoah Valley, 1785-1942. (Printed by Piper Print. Co., 1948), by Alexander Mackay-Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The thoroughbred in the lower Shenandoah Valley, 1785-1842 (Pifer Print. Co., 1948), by Alexander Mackay-Smith and Theophilus Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• The horse-breeder's guide and hand book : embracing one hundred tabulated pedigrees of the principal sires, with full performances of each and best of their get, covering the season of 1883, with a few of the distinguished dead ones (Office of Turf, Field and Farm, 1883), by Sanders Dewees Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nursery stud thoroughbreds : property of August Belmont, Lexington, Kentucky. (John Polhemus Printing Co., 1897), by August Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eclipse & OK̓elly : being a complete history so far as is known of that celebrated English thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789) of his breeder the Duke of Cumberland & of his subsequent owners William Wildman, Dennis OK̓elly & Andrew OK̓elly now for the first time set forth from the original authorities & family memoranda (Dutton, 1907), by Theodore Andrea Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bruce's American stud book (Jockey Club, 1873), by N.Y.) Jockey Club (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics applied to the race horse (Une foulée de galop de course) (Paris, New York, 1916), by H. Cousté and E. B. Cassatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A plea for sanity in thoroughbred racing. ([The Plains? Va.], 1962), by Reginald J. Vickers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoroughbred bloodlines; an elementary study ([Priv. print.] Monumental Printing Co., 1935), by John Furman Wall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Stallion Registration Board (Supt. of State Print., 1912), by California. Stallion Registration Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of thoroughbreds (Burns & Waterhouse, 1900), by Burns and Waterhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two year olds of 1899. Their breeding in full, by whom bred, and by whom trained. (Edmund Seale, 1899), by Joseph Osborne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of high-bred trotting stock, at the Sherman Stock Farm, Lexington, Ky (J.A. Sherman, 1889), by Sherman Stock Farm, J. A. Sherman, and John A. Seaverns Equine Collection (Tufts University) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Training thoroughbred horses (The Blood-horse, 1953), by Preston M. Burch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The thoroughbred horse of New Jersey (New Jersey Historical Society, 1960), by Peter Cole, Ronald C. Weyer, and New Jersey Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the racing calendar and stud-book : from their inception in the eighteenth century, with observations on some of the occurrences noted therein (Sporting Life, 1926), by Charles Matthew Prior (page images at HathiTrust)

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