Talk:Thoroughbred

RFD
Purported adjective with this capitalization. Seems more likely that usage is interpretable as attributive use of the noun. DCDuring TALK 23:30, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Deleted adjective sense. --EncycloPetey 21:11, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

RFV discussion: June 2011–January 2012
Rfv-sense: First cousins who are related on both sides. Besides needing to be rewritten if valid, I can't find this sense in OneLook references. DCDuring TALK 23:27, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 22:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January–July 2015
I have looked at the Wikipedia article, but I'm a bit dubious. is Thoroughbred really a breed? I would only use the uncapitalised form. Donnanz (talk) 11:18, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The Sport of Kings takes itself rather seriously, and the capitalised version is the normal one, as a quick visit to the UK Jockey Club website and the US Jockey Club website will attest.--KTo288 (talk) 22:23, 1 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Regarding the definition: yes, this does refer to a specific breed. The citations at seem sufficiently unambiguous.
 * Regarding the capitalization: I will lemmatize the form which is [//books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Thoroughbreds%2Cthoroughbreds%2CThoroughbred+horse%2Cthoroughbred+horse&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CThoroughbreds%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthoroughbreds%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CThoroughbred%20horse%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cthoroughbred%20horse%3B%2Cc0 most common], which is the lowercase form. The arguments for and against capitalizing the names of birds, horses, etc have been laid out over on Wikipedia, and boil down to: specialist sources often capitalize and speak of Bald Eagles, Red[-| ][T|t]ailed Hawks, Thoroughbreds, etc, but general usage is of the lowercase forms. We've always lemmatized the lowercase forms of birds' names (and after a heated debate, WP now does too), and perusing Category:en:Horses I see we already lowercase most of them, too. - -sche (discuss) 04:43, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I think the idea is that we presume the lowercase form to be the more common one, but that presumption can be rebutted by good-quality frequency evidence, such as Google N-grams might yield. DCDuring TALK 05:16, 27 July 2015 (UTC)