The Blood-Horse

The Blood -Horse is a weekly English-language journal with a focus on the topics of horse breeding and horse racing, the English thoroughbreds are the focus of reporting. In addition to articles on race, the associated analyzes and discussions and event announcements The Blood -Horse also contains investigative reports, information about, for example, pedigrees, medical aspects, farm management and news from the breeding history and further characteristics of individual horses.

The renowned journal is with the founding date of 1916, the oldest continuously published magazine in this department in North America. Edited she is in Lexington, Kentucky ( " Horse Capital of the World" ) through the Blood -Horse Publications - in cooperation with the Thoroughbred Owners and also established Breeders Association ( TOBA ).

For Millennium is published the Blood -Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. In July 2003 earned The Blood -Horse praise from different page for a report on the clandestine slaughter of the successful in the 1980s racehorse Ferdinand in Japan, after the latter had not yielded the desired breeding results. The article was the catalyst for the introduction of " Ferdinand Fee" in 2006. This small, voluntary contribution at the races comes two organizations Bluegrass Charities and Thoroughbred Charities of America benefit to the care of the charity for aged thoroughbred.