A blooded quadruped is one with a pedigree; one bred of a particularly good stock.
1778. Several blooded mares and fillies will also be sold.—Advt., Maryland Journal, Jan. 20.
1778. “Three half-blooded bull-calves” advertised for sale.—Id., Aug. 11.
1782. Stolen, the following Creatures, viz. one a bay Horse, the other a half-blooded black Mare.—Id., July 30.
1783. A young bay Mare, part blooded.—Id., Feb. 4.
1783. A likely dark bay mare, about three-quarters blooded.—Id., July 15.
1784. A natural trotter, but not free-spirited, though part blooded.—Id., Nov. 2.
1786. A number of full-blooded Colts and Fillies, got by Bajazet, together with a considerable number of half and three-quarter blooded Colts and Fillies, by the same Sire.—Id., March 31.
1804. When one of our blooded young fellows separates from the crowd, he only, &c.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 11.
1810. Forty-five full-blooded Merino sheep.—Id., April 25.
1829. [He] presented Col. Gardner Chandler with a fine blooded colt.—Id., June 10.
1829. He is somewhat distinguished as a breeder of blooded horses.—John P. Kennedy, ‘Swallow Barn,’ p. 36 (N.Y., 1851).
1833. The grooms were feeding and rubbing down a number of beautiful blooded animals.—James Hall, ‘The Harpe’s Head,’ p. 22 (Phila.).
1888. The cattle, costing per head what, we whispered to each other, would set us up in a handsome income for life and buy a Blue-grass farm with blooded horses, etc., which was my husband’s ideal home.—Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 340.
