Featured Inductee: Northern Dancer - Thoroughbred Horse Racing

Year Inducted: 2014
Birth Date: May 27, 1961
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Northern Dancer:
Born on May 27, 1961 at Windfields Farm, Oshawa, Northern Dancer (by Neartic - Natalma by Native Dancer) ran his way into the hearts of Canadians with his prowess on the racetrack and then took the world of thoroughbred horse racing by storm with his unmatched success as a sire.  Northern Dancer had distinguished himself on the racetracks of North America winning such prestigious graded stakes races as the Flamingo, The Florida Derby, The Bluegrass Stakes, The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness, and The Queen\'s Plate.  Owned by E.P. Taylor\'s Windfields Farm and trained by Horatio Luro, he was voted both Best Three Year Old of the Year and Horse of the Year in 1964.Following his retirement from racing, Northern Dancer went on to a stud career first back in Windfields, Oshawa and then Windfields Farm, Maryland.  And, it is as a stallion that his international fame and place in history were established.  Siring 635 foals, a full 80% (or 511) per cent became racehorses themselves - and winners of races.  Of that number, 146 were stakes winners and a further 26 became champions in Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy and North America.  The list of Northern Dancer Champions includes names revered in racing history, names such as Nijinsky II, The Minstrel, El Gran Senior, Secreto, Stormbird, Nureyev, Try My Best and Sadlers Wells.  By the turn of the twenty first century, Northern Dancer\'s bloodlines accounted for roughly 70% of the world\'s thoroughbreds.Northern Dancer died at the Maryland Farm on November 16, 1990.  His body was vanned back \"home\" to Windfields, Oshawa where he now rests.