Thoroughbred Racing Stock and Its Ancestors by Lady Wentworth

The Authentic Origin of Pure Blood

Many Voices Concerning the Horses of the World with Additional Chapters from Notes of the Late Lady Anne Blunt and Wildfrid Scawen Blunt, on the Arabian breed, collected, edited, and enlarged, with a history of the Thoroughbred racehorse and the horses of the East and West

by

Lady Wentworth

This book contains a treasure trove of knowledge and is generally considered the best of Lady Wentworths books. Loaded with useful historic information,Lady Wentworths opinions, assertions and theories on nearly every equine topic, photographs and illustrations, and trivia about nearly every breed of horse and the Arabians of Crabbet Park in particular. Lady Wentworths opinions and thoughs are always interesting reading and the photgraphs and illustrations are facinating.

Hard cover book in good condition, published in 1938,New York, Charles Scribners’s Sons, 475 pages of text with about 100 additional pages of photos, containing a total of 388 half-tone plates (21 in color), diagrams, pedigrees, charts, and racing records.