History of the Australian Stud Book

Featured Image: The Australian Stud Book History 2006 by Michael Ford Keeper June 2006

See also:

http://www.studbook.org.au/AboutTheASB.aspx

http://www.studbook.org.au/DisplayPDF.aspx?ty=HIST

https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/keepers-of-the-australian-stud-book/

John Digby

I am indebted to my good friend Michael Ford for this ‘inspiration’? I was motivated to seek some information about the ‘exponential’ increase in thoroughbred broodmare numbers from the mid-1960s to the late ‘crazy 80s’. I found it in Michael’s excellent treatise on the subject. No longer being a contributor to the ASB I found myself ‘locked out’ from this database. I could be my ineptitude with modern technology? My spouse says it’s innate!

Remarkably I find that I knew and/or know 50% of the eight (8) Keepers of the Australian Stud Book! Longevity and pernicious persistence do come with reward!

HTBA Yearling Sale 40 Years On

Featured Image: Front cover of the catalogue for the HTBA Scone Yearling Sale 12 May 2019

I could start with yet another hoary old cliché; but I won’t! I decided for no good reason to compare the HTBA promoted yearling sales after 40 years of ‘progress’. I have written about the First Annual Scone Yearling Sale before and elsewhere.

See:

https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/upper-hunter-thoroughbred-breeders-society-1951/

https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/bold-scone-venture/

https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/hunter-thoroughbred-breeders-association-scone-history/

https://sconevetdynasty.com.au/hvbhba-first-annual-scone-sale-1979/

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