Northern Dancer
Sire:	Nearctic
Grandsire:	Nearco
Dam:	Natalma
Damsire:	Native Dancer
Sex:	Stallion
Foaled:	1961
Country:	Canada
Colour:	Dark Bay
Breeder:	Edward P. Taylor
Owner:	Windfields Farm. Racing silks: Turquoise, gold dots on sleeves, gold cap.
Trainer:	Horatio Luro
Record:	18:14-2-2
Earnings:	$580,806
Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards
Major Racing Wins
Coronation Futurity Stakes (1963) Flamingo Stakes (1964) Florida Derby (1964) Blue Grass Stakes (1964) Kentucky Derby (1964) Preakness Stakes (1964) Queen's Plate (1964)
Racing Awards
U.S. Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt (1964) Canadian Horse of the Year (1964) Leading sire in North America (1970) Leading broodmare sire in North America (1991) Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland (1970, 1977, 1983, 1984)
Honours
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1965) Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1976) United States Racing Hall of Fame (1976) Canadian postage stamp (1999) Northern Dancer Blvd. in Toronto, Ontario Northern Dancer Dr. in Warwick, Maryland Life-size statue at Woodbine Racetrack Northern Dancer Breeders' Cup Turf at Woodbine Northern Dancer Breeders' Cup Stakes at Churchill Northern Dancer Plate at Hyderabad Race Club (India) "Northern Dancer Herd" : Northern Dancer's blog
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A bay colt, Northern Dancer was by Nearctic-Natalma, by Native Dancer. In 1952, Edward P. Taylor, Canadian business magnate and owner of Windfields Farm, had attended the December sale at Newmarket, England where he purchased Lady Angela, a mare in foal to Nearco. Two years later she was bred again with Nearco, producing a colt named Nearctic who was voted the 1958 Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. From Nearctic and the mare Natalma, a daughter of the great Native Dancer, came Northern Dancer. A colt or filly with its mother A Colt is a young male horse, under the age of four. ... Nearctic (1954-1973) was an Canadian-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. ... Native Dancer (March 27, 1950-November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television. ... Edward Plunket Taylor, (January 29, 1901 - May 14, 1989) was a Canadian 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. ... This article is about the English town. ... 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. ... 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. ... Nearctic (1954-1973) was an Canadian-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. ... 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. ... Native Dancer (March 27, 1950-November 16, 1967), nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was one of the most celebrated and accomplished thoroughbred racehorses in history, the first horse made famous through the medium of television. ...

Racing career

Northern Dancer was ridden by Ron Turcotte in his first victory as a two-year-old at Fort Erie Race Track. Before the running of the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky, trainer Horatio Luro asked jockey Bill Shoemaker to make a commitment to ride either Northern Dancer or the more promising colt Hill Rise. Shoemaker went with the unbeaten Hill Rise, believing the colt represented his best chance for a win at the prestigious Kentucky Derby. As a result of Shoemaker's decision, Bill Hartack became Northern Dancer's permanent jockey, guiding him to his best season in 1964 at age 3 when he won the Flamingo Stakes, Florida Derby, Blue Grass Stakes, Kentucky Derby in record time, the Preakness Stakes, and the Queen's Plate. He was also named the Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old of 1964. Ron Joseph Morel Turcotte (born July 22, 1941) is a world-famous jockey. ... Fort Erie Race Track is a horse racing facilty in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada built by the Fort Erie Jockey Club and inaugurated on June 16, 1897. ... The Blue Grass Stakes, currently sponsored by the Toyota Motor Corporation, is an American Grade 1 horse race for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds. ... Keeneland Race Course at Dawn There is also a town in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with the same name, unrelated to this article; for the town, see Keeneland, Kentucky. ... Lexington, Kentucky, United States, known as the Horse Capital of the World, is located in the heart of the Bluegrass region. ... Horatio A. Luro (February 27, 1901 - December 16, 1991) was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States. ... William Lee Shoemaker, (August 19, 1931 _ October 12, 2003) was an American jockey. ... Hill Rise (1961-1982) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. ... The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... William John Hartack Jr. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... The Flamingo Stakes was a Grade III stakes race for three-year-old thorough race horses run at the Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida over a distance of 1 1/16 miles. ... The Florida Derby is a race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... The Blue Grass Stakes, currently sponsored by the Toyota Motor Corporation, is an American Grade 1 horse race for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds. ... The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... The Preakness Stakes is a Grade I stakes race 1 3/16 mile (1. ... The Queens Plate is North Americas oldest thoroughbred horse race, run at a distance of 1 1/4 miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses, foaled in Canada, run annually in July at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke (Toronto), Ontario. ... The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ...

In his two years of racing, Northern Dancer won 14 of his 18 races and never finished worse than third. In The Blood-Horse ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Northern Dancer was ranked #43. The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. ... In 1999, The Blood-Horse magazine compiled a list of what its staff members considered to be the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century who had competed in the United States. ...

A sire of champions

Northern Dancer stood at stud at Taylor's Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario until 1969 when he was moved to Windfields Maryland farm where he remained until his death. Northern Dancer was the most successful sire in thoroughbred horse-racing in the 20th Century. His offspring have earned more money and won more major stakes races than those of any other sire up until the 1990's era of shuttle stallions, including North American, Japanese, Australian and European champions. He sired 146 stakes winners including the great Nijinsky II, winner of England's Triple Crown, as well as The Minstrel, Shareef Dancer, Secreto, El Gran Senor, Fanfreluche and multiple champion sires Nureyev, Danzig, Sadler's Wells and Storm Bird. He was also the great-grandsire of 133rd Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense. 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. ... Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 90 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37°53N to 39°43N  - Longitude 75°4W to 79°33... Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... The racehorse Nijinsky II (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page and a grandson of Nearco. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... The Minstrel, (1974-1990), was a champion thoroughbred racehorse. ... Shareef Dancer (1980-1999) was a American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse owned by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and based at his Godolphin stables in England. ... Secreto (b c Northern Dancer - Bettys Secret (Secretariat)) was foaled on February 12 1981 and won the Epsom Derby in 1984. ... El Gran Senor (b. ... Fanfreluche (1967-1999) was a Canadian-bred Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. ... Nureyev (1977-2001) was a Kentucky-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and Champion sire who was bought in 1978 at the Keeneland yearling sale by Stavros Niarchos for US$1. ... Danzig (1977- 2006) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is best know as a Champion sire. ... Sadlers Wells was a racehorse born in 1981, and sired by Northern Dancer. ... Storm Bird (1978-2004) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse in Ireland. ... The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... Street Sense (born February 23, 2004 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse owned and bred by James B. Tafel. ...

An exceptional sire, he was named the 20th century's best sire of sires. Others have given the 'title' to Phalaris, but Phalaris did nothing as a sire when not mated to daughters of Chaucer. In the 1983 Keeneland auction, one of Northern Dancer's colts named Snaafi Dancer became the first $10 million yearling. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Keeneland Race Course at Dawn There is also a town in Jefferson County, Kentucky, with the same name, unrelated to this article; for the town, see Keeneland, Kentucky. ...

Although he has been dead for more than fifteen years, there are more Northern Dancer line Breeder's Cup winners than any other horse. The Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships is an annual series of thoroughbred horse races sponsored by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. ...

Honors

Northern Dancer won the American Eclipse Award as Three-Year Old Male Champion of 1964 and the Sovereign Award for Horse of the Year. In 1965, he became the first horse to ever be voted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, an honour he held for thirty-one years and now shares with Canadian Equestrian Champion Big Ben (inducted 1996). On its formation he was part of the first group of inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1976. He was retired from stud (breeding) on April 15, 1987 at the age of 26. He died in 1990 and is memorialized at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. In 1999, Canada Post honored the horse with his image placed on a postage stamp. A residential street was named after the horse on the former site of the Greenwood Race Track in east-end Toronto. There is also a life size bronze statue of the horse outside Woodbine Race Track in northwest Toronto. The Eclipse Award is a thoroughbred racing award. ... 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. ... Canadas Sports Hall of Fame is a Hall of Fame established in 1955 to preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canadas heritage of sport[1]. As of June 2004, there were 436 inductees. ... Big Ben (April 20, 1976 – December 11, 1999) was a world champion show jumping horse. ... 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. ... The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Windfields Farm is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. ... Oshawa (estimated 2004 population 150 000; metropolitan population 296 298) is a city on Lake Ontario located approximately 60 km east of downtown Toronto in Ontario, Canada. ... Canada Post logo Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is a Canadian postal service operated as an independent crown corporation. ... This is a list of notables on stamps of Canada. ... Greenwood Racetrack was a thoroughbred horseracing track in Toronto, Canada. ... Woodbine Racetrack in northwest 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. ...

During the past forty years, a number of books have been written about Northern Dancer with the latest two editions coming out in 2006. One, by respected pedigree authority Avalyn Hunter, author of "American Classic Pedigrees (1914-2002)," recounts how Northern Dancer and his sons have established a royal dynasty that has profoundly dominated the international bloodstock market. // Events June 26, 2006: J.K. Rowling reaveals that two characters will die in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series. ...

Northern Dancer has given impulse to a blog dealing only with achievements of his sucession herd: the Norcern Dancer Herd Blog. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

References

• Lennox, Muriel Anne. Northern Dancer: The Legend and His Legacy (Hushion House Publishing Ltd: 1995) ISBN 0-9699025-0-6
• Hunter, Avalyn. The Kingmaker : How Northern Dancer Founded a Racing Dynasty. (Eclipse Press : 2006) ISBN 1-58150-137-4
• Gamble-Arsenault, Debbie. Great Canadian Race Horses: The Incredible Feats of Northern Dancer and other Speed Demons (Altitude Publishing : 2006) ISBN 1-55439-000-1
• Thoroughbred Times article: Northern Dancer, the 20th century's best sire of sires

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External links

• Northern Dancer's pedigree
• Northern Dancer's Kentucky Derby
• Northern Dancer 's offspring at the Triple Crown database by Kathleen Irwin and Joy Reeves
• Northern Dancer's blog