Welcome to Ulbrich’s Peerage
November 5th, 2007
On this site, you can find out more about Richard Ulbrich, widely acclaimed thoroughbred author and researcher, and how you can subscribe to the database that we believe is the single most important source of information on the Thoroughbred!
The database that is the backbone of the website has been created over 30 years by Richard Ulbrich. Richard Ulbrich published his first book on the thoroughbred “See How They Ran” in 1981, his next in 1984 – “The Great Stallion Book”, and in 1997 followed with “Richard Ulbrich’s Peerage of Racehorses”.
This database is essentially the online version of the book “Richard Ulbrich’s Peerage of Racehorses” — which had only 27,000 entries. The online version has over 50,000.
William “Bill” Lathrop, author of several papers, a researcher and pedigree expert in his own right, who has spent much of his life researching and delving into the “mysteries” of the Thoroughbred, said: “I think the site will be a marvelous resource to anyone who is interested in thoroughbred history and breeding. I am of the opinion that Richard’s work will stand alone as the premier resource ever penned on the racing thoroughbred.”
The website is subscription based, and the lifetime subscription is $US199, with annual renewals of US$39. Very soon we will have a free LITE version, but it will only have some of the features of the full version.
As a launch special, we will send you a copy of the 1997 book “Richard Ulbrich’s Peerage of Racehorses” for the cost of postage and handling – US$50 – a saving of over US$150! But there are very few copies left, so when we run out…!
To subscribe, there is at the moment a two step process. This will be simplified in the future…
1. Please register on the site www.ulbrichspeerage.net
2. Please pay the subscription fee via the PayPal button below.
3. If I don’t respond advising that your account has been activated within 24 hours, please email me at ulbrichspeerage(at)gmail.com
We know this is one purchase decision that you will never regret.
To find out more, please read the articles under PAGES.
And should you wish to contact Richard or myself, please email us at ulbrichspeerage(at)gmail.com
Michael O’Neill
——————– From Richard Ulbrich, author:A PEDIGREE IS MORE THAN A CLUSTER OF NAMES ON A PAGE…
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A PEDIGREE IS MORE THAN A CLUSTER OF NAMES ON A PAGE
Behind each name was/is a life, a life overlooked by most, if not all competitor databases. Peerage of Racehorses specifically rectifies this palpable omission offering a three dimensional image… endeavouring to breathe life into each name
A long time in coming, Peerage of Racehorses does not boast a plethora of names, just 50,000 or so. But each entry umbrella’d by “Peerage” is the name of an animal a link in the chain to those that today dominate the breed. Broadly said, if one cannot find and connect a mare, or the dam of a colt, with its Family within six generations, then almost certainly, its place in Turf annals will lapse, fading until it is unremembered.
Peerage of Racehorse is not a database of theories. It does not promise the “Holy Grail.” It does not promote any theory beyond the thought that familiarity and familiarisation is the key to understanding, and that “Peerage” is a gateway to this ken. On the way, it may provide data to support a ‘pet’ theory, but this will be incidental. Although a comment that the present demonstrable, “nicks,” may occasionally be found as: “… appears to nick well with…,” I am suspicious of this as a reality. That Emperor of “nicks,” Nasrullah over Princequillo failed miserably when Nasrullah covered a daughter of Princequillo, the offspring of the union failing ever to win or place!
Most theories in the breeding of the racehorse are seen clearly after the event, and then are trumpeted loudly. Has one ever heard voiced before the event, even from the most rabid of theorists, that a horse will be a success as a result of this or that theory.’ The theorist is silent until wise after the event. That theories may provide hours of enjoyment, in afterglow, is not denied – but Nature’s secrets remain unlocked – stillborn after one proving. This one-proof, notwithstanding, all too often becomes sustaining. In the thousand and one theories that abound there is always someone to tell “the story.” But common sense dictates that one be wary of the promise of gold from lead. If theories were as successful as their promoters gainsay, they would never appear of the market. And would not the successful theorists be dominating racing, owning all successful horses that in hindsight they find configures to the pattern of their theory. Countless advertise the “Tesio Theory”, despite the undisputed fact that Tesio never had a theory, or at least one he enunciated.