Definition of "bloodstock" [bloodstock]

• Thoroughbred animals in general, but especially horses. (noun)
• The breeding line of a thoroughbred horse or other animal. (noun)

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• "Last Wednesday, at Godolphin's annual pre-season media morning in Dubai, Simon Crisford, one of Sheikh Mohammed's most trusted advisors, made it clear that Godolphin and, by implication, the rest of the Maktoum family's bloodstock operations would refuse to run their horses in any sub-tariff event this year."
• "John Warren, who is also the bloodstock advisor to the Queen, travels the world looking at yearlings every autumn and then Herbert attempts to secure and market them."
• "Who could have guessed that one of the four, from the hundreds of yearlings to pass through the sheikh's immense bloodstock operation in 2009, would end up as the favourite for the Derby this afternoon?"