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Definition of Standardbreds
1. standardbred [n] - See also: standardbred
Lexicographical Neighbors of Standardbreds
Literary usage of Standardbreds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1912)
"110 standardbreds. Total 100 It might be well to subdivide one or more of these
... The number of estimated remounts by Morgans and standardbreds is 840. ..."
2. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"As is universally recognized, Hamble- tonian 10 was the foundation sire of
standardbreds, and the majority of the horses which have made standard records ..."
3. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"As is universally recognized, Hamble- tonian 10 was the foundation sire of
standardbreds, and the majority of the horses which have made standard records ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"While some of the families of standardbreds show a stronger tendency to trot than
to pace, the reverse is not common, although it is possible that in time ..."
5. Public School Methods (1921)
"... though it is true that standardbreds often pace and are easily the world's
swiftest horses at this gait as they are also at trotting. ..."
6. Productive Horse Husbandry by Carl Warren Gay (1914)
"... in view, first, of the prevalence of the trotting instinct in both, and second,
of the successful manner in which standardbreds and Hackneys nick. ..."
7. A History of the Percheron Horse: Including Hitherto Unpublished Data by Alvin Howard Sanders (1917)
"The show- ring is to Percherons what the racetrack has been to Thoroughbreds and
standardbreds. It is the fiery crucible wherein the gold is separated from ..."
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