European Trainer - Issue 46 - Summer 2014

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NORTHERN DANCER Northern Dancer wins the 1964 Kentucky Derby by a neck ahead of Hill Rise

NORTHERN DANCER

Small in stature but a giant among thoroughbreds

Few horses were ever as animated and filled with a zest for life as the great racehorse and sire Northern Dancer. The bay son of Nearctic needed all the grit and exuberance he possessed, however, because he broke through prejudice and naysayers at every turn. WORDS: FRank Mitchell PhOtOS: Michael BuRnS PhOtOgRaPhy, WOODBine enteRtainMent gROuP, aRchiveS DePt., cOOlMORe, hORSePhOtOS

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ORTHERN Dancer was small in height; he was born in Canada; he was not supposed to be a Classic colt; and even among his partisans, none could have expected him to become the most prominent international sire of the past 50 years.

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