Preferred Citation

MSS 16399 Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2017-0122 Purchased 7 June 2017. Marion duPont Scott Fund.

Biographical Note

Hermann Goos was the author of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, which was first published in 1885. He issued a second edition of this book in 1891. The volume is one of the earliest scientific studies of breeding thoroughbred racehorse mares.

Source: Materials within collection.

Scope and Contents

Hand copied translation by unknown translator of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, second edition (Hamburg, 1891) by Hermann Goos. English translation is bound with printed German copy, as well as three newspaper issues on the topic of horseracing. Two of these newspapers are issues of the Berlin publication Sport-Welt, dating from 22 December 1893 and 6 February 1896.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Horses -- Breeding