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Owner(s):
E. P. Taylor  -  Windfields Farm
Trainer:
Horatio Luro
Bred:
(CAN) by E. P. Taylor  -  [Add Data]
Pedigree:
Nearctic  -  Natalma  by  Native Dancer
Rating:
 
 
Northern Dancer
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What the Nation is saying about Northern Dancer...

Can you imagine coming so close to achieving your most incredible dream only to have it snatched away from you by the narrowest of margins? The connections of these ten horses certainly can. I hope you enjoy my Top 10 near misses... Read More
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  • zxswordxz · It is comical to see the comment "pin head rider". The jockey is there for the ride and the horse run. Great horses overcome bad ride. - I wonder who made those comments... · 8 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · The majority of people who work daily with them, i.e. horseman's bookkeeper, correctly gave them that title...These are people who came by their careers the hard way often starting in the lowest rungs of their profession and bypassing most formal education....Horses run, riders are passengers. · 8 days ago ·
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We think they will live forever, the true legends of thoroughbred racing. We take for granted that we will wake up the next morning and horses like Storm Cat will be there enjoying the luxury of their retirement, just as they were the day before. Yet, today, wasn't like yesterday. Today, one of the ...Read More
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  • banamine1 · Amen Cheers · 25 days ago ·
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  • Jay S. · Storm Cat begat Forestry, who begat Shackleford. The Shack carried a lot of his Grandpa's determination, IMO. · 25 days ago ·
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My Saratoga-Fort Erie Road Trip ’12 came to end in grand style on Monday with my first ever visit to the Canadian track. I found the 115-year-old race place, just on the other side of the border from Buffalo, to be nothing short of charming. I only hope my first visit there will not also be my last.Read More
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  • travel_vic · that sounds equitable....The cancellation of the program hurt the small venues the most. · 56 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · They will have to do a lot of work on the turf course because they did NOTHING to it all season long last year. · 56 days ago ·
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Besides being juvenile graded stakes winners they are similarly bred. How far will they want to run?Read More
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  • CreativeCause · haha!! so true seattleslewgal345! · 245 days ago ·
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  • JohnNicoletti1 · Bobby is s a real nice colt, who will do well at the shorter routes. · 69 days ago ·
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A brief summary on the life of Federico Tesio, the Wizard of Dormello, who reinvented racing and dominated it with an open mind and ambition.Read More
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  • Sysonby · Well written piece. There is no question Tesio bred horses who established outstanding breeding lines. I still have to say that ignoring the fact that the mare contributes half the chromosomes to the horse is just a little bit crazy. · 97 days ago ·
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  • amino998 · What's the back story on Ribot's mom Romanella? Found her on the side of the road? · 93 days ago ·
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Let's take a look back at some of the greatest horses that ran at the same time yet never crossed paths on the track.Read More
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  • Floridaf · To answer Cocoa's question: Of the 15 BC races, 4 winners were on the lead, 2 winners were speedy types but not on the lead (within a length at 1/2 mile call), 6 winners took up stalking positions (within 4 lengths at 1/2 mile call), and 3 closed from off the pace (Flotilla was 4 1/2 lengths back, Calidoscopio was 14 lengths back at the 1 mile call in the marathon, and Mizdirection was 8 lengths back). · 127 days ago ·
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  • Floridaf · jmcleav, I agree with you about Blind Luck. She left everything she had on the track after her scintillating DelCap performance. · 127 days ago ·
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I wrote previously about a member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame who was trying valiently to save some of the graves of original stallions at Winfilelds Farm In Oshawa (birth place of Northern Dancer). I spoke with her today about my posting and she gave me here e-mail address where people can help out with her quest. and/or follow her efforts. Name is mrs. Jenny Bridle...... jenny.bridle@gmail.com
  • MarcelloMarocco · I drove up to the Oshawa area and I am just disgusted that windfield farms is gone and buried. I am extremely saddened that the Taylor family did not recognize the true power and historical value that Windfield farms had. That is like Wiping Claiborne farms off the racing map south of the border. · 127 days ago ·
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He is the first horse that I followed, wished for, and cheered for. I was only 8 years old when I had my Dad put $2 on Northern Dancer to win the Kentucky Derby. He was a great horse - and quite a fan favorite.
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  • travel_vic · There is a Hall of Fame meeting next Tuesday so I will get that address · 133 days ago ·
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  • northport · I know it is in Oshawa, Ontario, about an hour from my house, but it looks like the development is already beginning, or will be soon: http://www.tributecommunities.com/index.cgi?d=allModels&c=5 · 133 days ago ·
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On the Saturday after Thanksgiving, there are four stakes races at Aqueduct and they are the final four graded stakes of the year in New York. Read More
  • BrianZipse · Toughest test of the year for Groupie Doll ... I hope she can do it! Looking at a long shot in the Remsen in Indy's Illusion. · 181 days ago ·
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  • AndyScoggin · On top of the four graded stakes there is a $109,000 Pick 6 carryover! · 180 days ago ·
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With a close proximity to Canada, a country where many of my relatives reside, and a place where I spent many summer afternoons venturing to the track with my father, I thought I'd give this current blog post a taste of some North-of-the-Border flavor. Canadians, one and all, can be proud of their h...Read More
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  • oshawapilot · A group of us is trying to save what is now left of Windfields Farm in Oshawa, resting place of Northern Dancer. Come lend your support at www.savewindfields.com and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WindfieldsFarm - Thanks! · 253 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Methnks that oshawapilot sits on the Cnandian Horse Racing Hall of Fame and has dark hair and glasses · 253 days ago ·
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Del Mar unveils it's new Polytrack racing surface before a record opening day crowd of 42,842.Read More
On my way back from Florida I stopped in Cheasapeake peak city md, stopped at Bohemia Stable Mrs. Duponts farm, say Kelso;s and Dancers fathers grave Neartic, then went a short distance down the road to Northern Dancer Way, former Windfields Farm, now Northview and saw Northern Dancers stall, his name iis still on it with a bross sign, pretty awsome
  • buckpasser · Thank you for the nice trip down memory lane. Always a treat to go to the actual farms and see grave markers or stall plaques. Wonderful feeling to be following in the footsteps of giants of the turf. · 349 days ago ·
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How this horse is not a 10 confuses me.
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  • travel_vic · The pride of Oshawa Ontario, this little was all heart and great in the breeding shed · 360 days ago ·
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  • buckpasser · Both Northern Dancer and Native Dancer lost because of rider errors, in my opinion. Hartack completely misjudged the pace in the Belmont and cost Northern Dancer the TC. He would mess up again with Majestic Prince in 1969 allowing again to get caught with a very slow pace. Native Dancer lost the Derby because Guerin took him everywhere but the men's room. He was fouled at least twice and still managed to finishe second. Both deserve better scores. · 360 days ago ·
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E.P. Taylor, owner of Windfields Farms and breeder of Northern Dancer, died at age 88.Read More
For today’s Monday Movie, filmmaker Jeff Krulik has mined the archives — the National Archives, that is. He’s found Preakness clips from the Universal Newsreel collection during the last decade those newsreels were produced. Among the famed winners in this nine-minute reel are the great Northern Dan...Read More
almost won the triple crown
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  • travel_vic · Sham went under 2:00 as well at Chuchill · 442 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · THE best sire of the twentieth century. no comparison · 442 days ago ·
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well said LAZMANNICK
This incredible little horse won the Kentucky Derby when he was still (technically) only 2 years old! And he ran it faster than any horse had ever run it in history! It took Secretariat another 13 years to break the record. Won Preakness and finished a game 3rd in Belmont to a very good horse ... and he came out of the race with leg problems. His record at stud speaks to just how great he really was!!!
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  • cugel the clever · Not sayin' the Dancer should be higher than 63rd (it's his record as a sire that proves his greatness) but no way HR should be ranked higher than ND. · 493 days ago ·
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  • LAZMANNICK · Lots of inexperiencwed voters on the HRN list. The Bloodhorse top 100 voted on by experts who have been around for a long time voted Northern Dancer 43rd best. Hill Rise didn't make the top 100. · 493 days ago ·
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The date was May 2, 1964. Only a few months earlier the Beatles had topped the U.S. pop charts for the first time with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” only a few months earlier and in the world of thoroughbred horse racing; a gutsy little bay colt from our neighbor to the north would become the first Can...Read More
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  • cugel the clever · Greatest sire of the 20th century. Virtually every top level thoroughbred running today has Dancer bloodlines. · 498 days ago ·
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  • JohnByrd · Memories! That's the first horse race I ever consciously remember watching on TV. If only I had known what a place in history he would occupy! · 498 days ago ·
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There is much fertile land in the Ireland region known as the “Golden Vale” that Sadler’s Wells called home since 1984. This fertility certainly was indicative of the illustrious stud career that would follow for Coolmore’s most prized stallion.Read More
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  • AndyScoggin · Wow, those son's of Northern Dancer have been amazing! · 720 days ago ·
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  • MarcelloMarocco · Everything of Northern Dancer was Amazing :) Northern Dancer brought a Boom to the Breeding industry and when Coolmore Bought up a bunch of Dancer's Yearlings at Windfields Maryland facility that EP Taylor bought, and Built to cater Northern Dancer to the World. I read a while back that you could walk into Windfield's Stallion barn, and read the list of dignitaries who have purchased Northern Dancer offspring was astonishing at that time. Coolmore Bought NijinskyII, and NinjiskyII sired Sadler · 564 days ago ·
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Northern Dancer - Pedigree

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NearcticNearcoPharos
Nogara
Lady AngelaHyperion
Sister Sarah
NatalmaNative DancerPolynesian
Geisha
AlmahmoudMahmoud
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Northern Dancer - Race Results & Past Performances

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View Details10/31/641stB HartackWO11 1/4 mDQueen's Plate-G103+ MNorthern Dancer  0:00.00
View Details06/13/642ndB HartackBel11 1/2mDBelmont Stakes-G103 MQuadrangleNorthern Dancer 0:00.00
View Details05/16/641stB HartackPim11 3/16 mDPreakness Stakes-G103 MNorthern DancerThe ScoundrelHill Rise0:00.00
View DetailsView Video05/02/641stW HartackCD81 1/4 mDKentucky Derby-G103 MNorthern DancerHill RiseThe Scoundrel2:00.00