The colonial stud books of New South Wales
The Australian Jockey Club had been calling for a stud book to document the bloodlines of Australia's thoroughbred horses since 1842, but it wasn't until 1859 that the Stud Book of New South Wales was finally published by Fowler Boyd Price.
The second volume of the Stud book of New South Wales was complied by Harry P. Mostyn and published by Bell's Sporting Life in 1868. The third volume appeared in 1973, published by the Agricultural Society of New South Wales. All three volumes of the stud book contained significant mistakes and omissions due to lack of trust and cooperation between colonial throughbred breeders and the compilers of the Stud books.
The copy of the Stud book of New South Wales shown below belonged to David Scott Mitchell, whose collection became the foundation of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
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The Stud book of New South Wales, containing pedigrees of race horses…from the earliest arrivals in the colony to the present time, Volume 1. [Sydney? : s.n.], 1859-1873 printing (Sydney : Francis Mason)
Printed volume DSM/ 636.1/ S SET v.1, copy 2
> View all three volumes of the Stud book of New South Wales via the Library's catalogue 