The brilliant and mighty both on the track and off...the always stellar... Northern Dancer By: Nearctic and the mare Natalma (by Native Dancer) Foaled: May 27, 1961 Land of Birth: Canada (CAN) Land of Standing: USA Family Number: TB-2D Owner: Windfields Farm (E. P. Taylor) Breeder: E. P. Taylor State Bred: ON Winnings: 18 Starts: 14 - 2 - 2, $580,806 Remsen S., Coronation Futurity, Summer S., Carleton S., Kentucky Derby (NTR), Preakness S., Flamingo S., Florida Derby, Queens Plate, Blue Grass S. 1964 Champion Three Year Old Colt in the USA & Canada, Canadian Horse of the Year. At 3: ETR Gulfstream Park, 7f in 1:22.2; NTR Churchill Downs, 10f in 2:00.0. Northern Dancer stood at stud at Taylors Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, until 1969, when he was moved to Windfields Maryland farm, where he remained until his death. He was the most successful 20th-century Thoroughbred sire. His offspring earned more money and won more major stakes races than those of any other sire until the 1990s era of shuttle stallions, including North American, Japanese, Australian, and European champions. He sired 147 stakes winners, including Nijinsky II, winner of Englands Triple Crown, as well as The Minstrel, Shareef Dancer, Secreto, Northernette, El Gran Senor, Lomond, and Fanfreluche. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dancer ) Leading sire in the USA, 1971 & 1977; in Great Britain, 1970, 1977, 1983, & 1984. Leading broodmare sire, 1991. Over $31 million in progeny earnings. He has been named the 20th centurys best sire of sires, producing multiple champions in both the United States and the United Kingdom. According to Thoroughbred Times, Northern Dancer had at least 11 sons that became truly outstanding sires: Be My Guest, Danzig, El Gran Senor, Fairy King, Lyphard, Nijinsky, Northern Taste, Nureyev, Sadlers Wells, Storm Bird, and Vice Regent. Northern Dancers influence extends to Japan, where Northern Taste stood at stud at the Yoshida familys Shadai Stallion Station and was the leading sire in Japan for 10 years. By early 1980, Northern Dancer and his son Nijinsky II had combined to sire the winners of almost US$20 million in stakes. He also became the grandsire of 1991 Canadian Triple Crown winner Dance Smartly, which became the richest filly at that time with 12 wins from 17 career starts, including the 1991 Breeders Cup Distaff and purses of over $2 million. She also proved to be a success as a broodmare. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dancer ) Most Notable Progeny Include: pedigreequery/progeny/northern+dancer Pensioned from stud in 1987. Died November 16, 1990. Buried at Windfields Farm, Ontario. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history. At the time of his 1990 death, his offspring and further descendants had won more than 1,000 stakes races. With this penchant for siring winners, Northern Dancers stud fee reached $1 million, an amount four to five times his rivals and a record amount that, as of 2009, has not been equalled. On twelve occasions between 1974 and 1988, Northern Dancer yearlings led the Keeneland July Selected Yearling Sale by average price. In 1984, 12 yearlings by Northern Dancer sold for an unrivaled sale-record average of price of US$3,446,666.[8] Combined over a period of 22 years, the top 174 Northern Dancer offspring at the Keeneland Sales sold for a total $160 million. As of 2014, the top ten horses on the list of top auction prices were sired by – or further descended from – Northern Dancer. This includes Northern Dancers son Snaafi Dancer, who became the first $10-million yearling when sold by Winfields Farms at the 1983 Keeneland Sales horse auction. Although he has been dead for more than 20 years, more Northern Dancer-line horses are Breeders Cup winners than from any other horse. According to France Galop, since 1994, the male bloodline of every Prix de lArc de Triomphe winner goes back to Nearco, his son Nasrullah, and his grandson Northern Dancer. Northern Dancer is also the paternal grandsire of several prominent stallions, including Storm Cat, Deputy Minister, El Prado, and Danehill. He is the great-grandsire (on both the sire and dam side) of Big Brown, the winner of the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Northern Dancer is the great-grandsire of Australias superstar mare, Makybe Diva. He is an ancestor of the winners of all three U.S. Triple Crown races in 2009: Mine That Bird in the Kentucky Derby, Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness, and Summer Bird in the Belmont. He is on both sides of the pedigrees of Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra. He is the great-grandsire of California Chrome, winner of the 2014 Kentucky Derby and 2014 Preakness Stakes, and also appears in the fifth generation of his pedigree. He is the great-great-grandsire of Sea the Stars. Undefeated racehorse Frankel is inbred 3 x 4 to Northern Dancer, meaning Northern Dancer appears once in the third generation and once in the fourth generation of his pedigree. Northern Dancer is the great-great-grandsire (all paternal) to undefeated Australian mare Black Caviar. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dancer ) Information Credits: pedigreequery, sporthorse-data and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Dancer Photo Credit: Spectacular Bid FB page and any other sites where pictures of Northern Dancer can be found. *All copyright and credits for the posted image of Northern Dancer go solely to the photographer who took the picture. All rights are therein reserved.* Northern Dancer...Forever Loved, Forever Remembered and Always A Champion!!
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:47:24 +0000
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