bloodstock industry

noun

1. the breeding and training of racehorses

Example Sentences

Trainer also involved in the bloodstock industry and sourced the Grand National contender Acapella Bourgeois and former champion hurdler Hurricane Fly.

From BBC

She is being lined up to be Royal Ascot's star turn followed by a date with the record-breaking colt Frankel, a prospective mating which has the international bloodstock industry salivating.

From The Guardian

British racing relies on a lucrative bloodstock industry to make up for low prizes.

From Economist

He enraged Ireland's powerful bloodstock industry recently when recalling "a time when breeding horses was democratic and before breeding had become monopolised by a very narrow number of people".

From The Guardian

“You would hope that the entire construction of the bloodstock industry isn’t disassembled piece by piece,” Osborne said.

From BusinessWeek