Bruce, Sanders Dewees (1825 – 1902)

« Colonel de l’armée de l’Union pendant la guerre de Sécession. Grand amateur de chevaux, il est l’auteur d’un Stud Book américain et d’un guide et manuel de l’éleveur de chevaux . Il a été le créateur et le rédacteur en chef du périodique Turf, Field and Farm . » Bibliothèque Mondiale du Cheval

– The Turf, Field and Farm. Sportsman’s oracle and country gentleman’s newspaper. New York, S.D. & B.G. Bruce, editors and proprietors — The Turf, Field and Farm, 1865-1903.

– American turf register and racing calendar. A correct synopsis of turf events in the United States and the Dominion of Canada, embracing running, trotting and pacing, for ... ; carefully compiled from official records; and an appendix, containing tables of winning horses …. New York, Published anually at the Office of Turf, Field and Farm, by Bruce & Co., No. 37 Park Row, 1871-1876.

– The American stud book : containing full pedigrees of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce, including the Arabs, Barbs, and Spanish horses, from the earliest accounts of racing in America, to the end of the year 1872: also, all the native mares and their produce. Alphabetically arranged. With an appendix giving pedigrees of all the native stallions whose dams have no names, with full and copious index to produce of the mares. by S.D. Bruce, Editor of the "Turf, Field and Farm", L. C. Bruce, co-editor. In two volumes. New York, Bruce & Co., 1873.

– The horse-breeder’s guide and hand book, embracing one hundred tabulated pedigrees of the principal sires, with full performances of each and best of their get, covering the season of 1883, with a few of the distinguished dead ones. By S. D. BRUCE, Author of the American Stud Book. New York, Published at the Office of Turf, Field and Farm, 1883.

– The Thoroughbred Horse : His Origin, How to Breed and How Select Him : With the Horse Breeders’ Guide. Embracing one hundred tabulated pedigrees of the principal sires, with full performances of each and best of their get, covering the season of 1892. By S. D. Bruce, Author of the American Stud Book. New York, Published at the Office of Turf, Field and Farm, 1892.

– Every horse owner’s cyclopedia. The anatomy and physiology of the horse; general characteristics; the points of the horse, with directions how to choose him; the principles of breeding, and the best kind to breed from; the treatment of the brood mare and foal; raising and breaking the colt; stables and stable management; riding, driving, etc., etc. Diseases, and how to cure them. The principal medicines, and the doses in which they can be safely administered; accidents, fractures, and the operations necessary in each case; shoeing, etc. By J. H. Walsh, F.R.C.S. ("Stonehenge"). What to do before the veterinary surgeon comes by George Fleming, F.R.C.S. The American Trotting Horse, with suggestions on the breeding and training of Trotters by Ellwood Harvey, M.D. A Short history of the Americain Trotting Turf, and tables of Trotting and Pacing performances by Henry T. Coates.Tables of the best performances on the American running turf by S. D. and L. C. Bruce of the "Turf, Field and Farm". The Percheron Horse; Tables of pedigrees of celebrated trotters, etc. With nearly one hundred fine engravings on wood and steel. Sold by subscription. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1892.