Originally Posted by allaorta:
“I just Google searched The Fellow and he was indeed an AQPS horse; translated into English it means "other than pure blood". Whether this was because he had American blood in his pedigree I don't know, though it would seem that by the time The Fellow was born, the stigma you refer to had been overcome. AQPS horses are classed as a breed with their own stud records and are crossed with thoroughbreds to produce eventers, show jumpers and even for use in the hunting field and racing, rather like the Irish draught horses.”
Interesting stuff. French bred AQPS afaik were from crossing thorougbreds with local French mares in the late 19th C to breed steeplechasers. The process is quite similar to how throughbreds came about in England by crossing imported Middle Eastern sires with English mares. These days AQPS horses are now I believe considered to be about 80% pure bred.
The amendment to the Jersy Act was that for a horse to be admitted to the General Stud Book it must be able to prove satisfactorily it has some eight or nine crosses pure blood, to trace back for at least a century, and to show such performances of its immediate family on the Turf as to warrant the belief in the purity of its blood.
As the Fellow was a gelding it hardly matters.
Lomond who recorded the slowest ever recorded time for a 2,000 Guineas winner in 1983.