bloodstock

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Bloodstock is fine racehorses considered as property. Bloodstock sales, a bloodstock agent, invest in bloodstock.

It is the trade word, and a bloodstock agent buys and sells horses on behalf of owners. Pedigree is everything in it, since the whole value rests on recorded descent.

Definitions of bloodstock

1nounbloodstockFine racehorses considered as property.C2
“Wealthy owners spend millions on bloodstock at the autumn horse sales.”

bloodstock is a property.

Where it comes from

Blood plus stock, from blood in the sense of pedigree and stock in the sense of animals kept.

From blood + stock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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bloodstock in the wild

McPeek is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and bloodstock agent.
Kenneth McPeek
Foundation stock or foundation bloodstock refers to animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a breed or of a given bloodline within such.
Foundation stock
Blandford Bloodstock is one of the leading horse racing bloodstock agencies in Europe.
Blandford Bloodstock
Reg Inglis is a bloodstock agent in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Reg Inglis
The Inglis family have been prominent as bloodstock agents since the nineteenth century.
Reg Inglis

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