A thoroughbred animal; specif., [T-] any of a breed of light horse developed by crossing Arabian and Turkish stallions with English mares: it is bred primarily for racing.
Thoroughbred race-horses are registered in the General Stud Book.
The Arabian camel belongs to the one-humped species, though there are many varieties differing in appearance as much as the thoroughbred race-horse from the English cart-horse.
Excellent polo ponies are bred as first or second crosses by thoroughbred stallions on the mares of nearly all the varieties of ponies named.
The quagga having become extinct, a number of mares were put to a richly striped Burchell zebra, and subsequently bred with Arab, thoroughbred and cross-bred sires.
He was riding a very fine thoroughbred gray Arab horse with a crimson gold-embroidered saddlecloth.