NEW – by Kathleen Kirsan – AMERICAN RUNNING HORSE – 2nd Edition https://www.amazon.com.au/American-Running-Horse-Kathleen-Kirsan/

The second edition of American Running Horse is now available at all online booksellers. Readers in the US can purchase it at a 20% discount through the link below.

This book is a history of the first American breed, a horse bred for racing, riding and hunting that became the base of our three American racehorse breeds and most of our saddle horses.

You probably never heard of this breed, yet it why our modern breeds are so talented. This history is presented in chronological order, with citations throughout and a detailed bibliography so the reader can verify and research the facts on their own. (ex-Kirsan)

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3. Early Studbook France –

https://archive.org/details/sbf1920/mode/1up

3.a – https://archive.org/details/hb-stud-book-1914 Half Breds, classified ‘B Tables.

4. https://www.thoroughbredracehorse.co.uk/index.htm

5. https://dn720203.ca.archive.org/0/items/horsebreedingi00oett/horsebreedingi00oett.pdf

6. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0015311#:~:text=Presence%20of%20ancient%20haplotypes%20in,extinct%20in%20modern%20horses%20today. Origin and History of Mitochondrial DNA Lineages in Domestic Horses (2010)