Talk:Standardbred horse

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Could someone please explain this phrase from the 1st paragraph, "or whose get could race a mile in standard time or better"? I'm guessing that 'get' means 'offspring'.... Can you rephrase this sentence to be intelligible to those not familiar with horse breeding? ike9898 13:54, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

I'll give it a try:

Could someone please explain this phrase from the 1st paragraph, "or whose get could race a mile in standard time or better"? I'm guessing that 'get' means 'offspring'.... Can you rephrase this sentence to be intelligible to those not familiar with horse breeding? ike9898 13:54, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

"Standardbred" horses are so called because in the early years of the Trotting Registry, the standardbred stud book established in the United States in 1879 by the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, only those horses who could race a mile in a standard time or better, or whose offspring could race a mile in standard time or better, were entered in the book.

I researched this further. Note that before being classified as a "standardbred" horse, these original horses had a Sire (father) and Dam (mother) that were "throughbred" horses (see Messenger).

What is standard time ? (Gnevin 19:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC))