Jersey Act

Jersey Act, resolution passed in 1913 by the English Jockey Club and named after its sponsor, Victor Albert George, 7th Earl of Jersey, one of the club stewards. It declared that the only horses and mares acceptable for registration in the General Stud Book would be those that could be traced in all their lines to sires and dams already registered therein. The Act effectively disqualified as Thoroughbreds many horses bred outside England or Ireland,...