@inbook{10.3138/9781442675872.6, ISBN = {9780802091123}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442675872.6}, abstract = {Over the years, empirical thinking relating to science and to various cultural concerns became interwoven and formed the basis for a standardized animal-breeding method, one designed to produce breeds yielding better and more economic biological commodities. The purebred system became widespread in the Western world and ultimately shaped views (scientific or otherwise) on the breeding of all species, even people. The production of workhorses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was influenced by these complicated animalbreeding approaches, which arose from the needs of agriculture and from attitudes to the racing Thoroughbred. But two other distinct patterns, which would}, bookauthor = {Margaret E. Derry}, booktitle = {Horses in Society: A Story of Animal Breeding and Marketing Culture, 1800-1920}, pages = {29--47}, publisher = {University of Toronto Press}, title = {The Light Horse}, year = {2006} }