<p>Richard Ulbrich 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 warmly of seeing Nasrullah and Tudor Minstrel (a horse which, he said, remained his most visible impression) race there in the 1940s; a time he considered 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.</p><p>That nostalgic background created a lifelong love of thoroughbreds that possibly, over the years, resulted in the most compressive study of the history of the horse-racing ever undertaken since Bobinski. His lifetime of research culminated in three acclaimed publications; <strong>“See How They Ran”</strong> in 1981, <strong>“The Great Stallion Book”</strong> in 1984, and the ultimate companion volume <strong>“Richard Ulbrich's Peerage of Racehorses”</strong> in 1994.</p><p>Richard dies in October 2016, in Brisbane, Australia, after a long illness.</p>
