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 Richard was born in Peterborough, England, in 1931, not far from the heart of English racing, Newmarket, which he visited often as a schoolboy. He spoke often warmly of seeing Nasrullah and Tudor Minstrel race there in the 1940s. Tudor Minstrel  was the  horse which, he said, remained his most visible impression. It was a time, he believed, to be the “golden age” of British race-riding, where the great riders Sir Gordon Richard, Charlie Smirke, Charlie Elliot and Harry Wragg stood apart from a coterie of accomplished horsemen.

That nostalgic background created a lifelong love of thoroughbreds that possibly, over the years, resulted in the most comprehensive study of the history of the horse-racing ever undertaken since Bobinski. His lifetime of research culminated in three acclaimed publications; “See How They Ran” in 1981, “The Great Stallion Book” in 1984, and the ultimate companion volume “Richard Ulbrich’s Peerage of Racehorses” in 1994. With his research so mammoth, he eventually had his work converted to an online database. His work, current up to around 2010 and amounting to over 4.5 million words, with over 45,000 thoroughbred horses commented upon, are exclusively available on this site.

With rare insight and true empathy for the horse itself, Richard will remain a voice for the breed forever. He only had one theory about thoroughbred breeding; “breed your best with the best available, and hope for the best.”