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...Lieut. Thomas H. Massie was prepared for Annapolis at the Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S.C., of which General Charles P. Summerall is the most distinguished graduate? Tommie Massie was graduated from there with me in June 1923 and I would not have wanted a finer man in the class. Bred in Kentucky, educated in South Carolina and Maryland, a gentleman through and through, "holding his honor dearer than his life...
...Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...
...thoroughbred is a breed of horses of the light type common to the race tracks here abroad. A thoroughbred horse whose sire and dame are pure and thereby entitled to registration is known as a pure bred thoroughbred horse...
Likewise a bull of 100% Jersey blood is a pure bred Jersey bull...
Outside of the livestock breeding world one often hears the word thoroughbred incorrectly used in place of the words pure bred...