Nearctic
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Sire:	Nearco
Dam:	Lady Angela
Damsire:	Hyperion
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1954
Country:	Canada
Colour:	Brown/Black
Breeder:	E. P. Taylor
Owner:	Windfields Farm
Trainer:	Gordon J. McCann
Record:	47: 21-5-3
Earnings:	$152,384
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Saratoga Special Stakes (1956) International Handicap (1957) Canadian Maturity (1958) Michigan Mile (1958)
Racing Awards
Canadian Horse of the Year (1958)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1977) Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack
Infobox last updated on: October 15, 2006. Image File history File links Photo_needed. ... Nearco (brown horse, bred 1935) was an Italian thoroughbred race horse by Pharos out of Nogara; he was bred by Federico Tesio, who also bred Ribot. ... Hyperion was a Thoroughbred racehorse and a successful sire. ... This Trakehner would be most appropriate to sire horses for the discipline of dressage. ... The color brown is a red or orange of low intensity; however brown exists as a color perception only in the presence of a brighter color contrast: red or orange objects are still perceived as such if the general illumination level is low, despite reflecting the same amount of red... Edward Plunket Taylor, born January 29, 1901 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died May 14, 1989 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas, was a business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. ... Windfields Farm is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. ... The Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year is a Canadian thoroughbred horse racing honor given annually since 1951 by the Jockey Club of Canada. ... The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1978 located at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. ... Woodbine Racetrack in southwest Toronto, Ontario is the only horseracing track in North America which stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and standardbred horseracing programs on the same day. ...

Nearctic (1954-1973) was an Canadian-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. He had his most successful season in racing at age four when he won nine races. Nearctic was retired to stand at stud at Windfields Farm in Canada where he sired Kentucky Derby winner and the 20th Century's greatest sire, Northern Dancer. For other uses, see Canada (disambiguation). ... The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1978 located at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. ... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... Horse breeding is the process of using selective breeding to produce additional individuals of a given phenotype, that is, continuing a breed. ... Windfields Farm is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. ... Churchill Downs racetrack, 1998 The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged annually in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 - November 16, 1990) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. ...

Nearctic was later moved to stand at Allaire du Pont's Woodstock Farm at Chesapeake City, Maryland where he died at age 19 on July 27, 1973. Chesapeake City is a town located in Cecil County, Maryland. ...

References

• Nearctic's pedigree and stats