The continuous and rapid increase taking place in the number of Thoroughbred British Horses bred and raced in our country has brought together various problems both in the field of racing and breeding, necessitating the development and adoption of a new system in order to devise modern solutions to above-mentioned problems, as well as to increase the productivity in both of said fields of activity.

As it was realized that the founding of a new organization was need to represent the Thoroughbred British Horses, the "Association of Breeders and Owners of Thoroughbred British Horses" was founded on 8 February 1989 to meet this need.

The names founding members are as follows: Hasan Adalı, Tunkut Aksungur, Celalettin Alkan, Mustafa Alver, Hikmet Tevfik Ataman, Avram Barokas, Adhan Nur Baykara, Aykut Semiral Bilbaşar, Yücel Birol, Dincer Cebeci, İrene R.Clarke, Mustafa Kaya Erkkul, Şerafettin Gedik, Levon Kalutsyan, Naci Yücel Köylü, Mustafa Kura, Nişan Arek Kuyumciyan, Mehmet Necdet Narin, Hilmi Narmanlı, Sedat Özcan, İsmail Özkan, Mehmet Alpay Özoğul, Hasan Saydam, Muharrem Ergin Talay, Ahmet Tokdemir, Sabahattin Uluçay, Yervant Ütücü, Selahattin Yılmaz, Mustafa Doruk Yılmaz, M.Şükrü Yurteri.

M.Necdet Narin served as the first President of the Association, who was followed by Mustafa Alver and Semiral Bilbaşar. The current President of the Association is Sadrettin Atığ.

According to the opinion and belief of persons engaged in the breeding and racing of British Horses, a "Race Horse" is defined as, like in the advanced western countries, a horse which runs fastest on the race course, is pure blooded and has a sturdy body.

The race horse meeting this definition is the horse called "Thoroughbred" by the British and Americans, "Pru sang Anglais" by the French, and Thoroughbred British" by us in our official race programs.

Right from the beginning of our founding, our efforts have been toward causing this exceptional creature to gain its deserved merit and to attain a well deserved position in our country as well. In order to prevent our level of breeding and racing to lag behind our times we, as the "Association of Breeders and Owners of Thoroughbred British Horses", are determined to spend our best efforts until we bring the Turkish Racing and Breeding to the desired level.

Through our efforts, we anticipate that a medium of Racing/Breeding longed by all of us will be created over time, so that both of these communities with their breeders and horsemen, their breeding stocks and race horses, and their farms and well trained personnel, will have the opportunity to carry out their activities in a modern way.