Northern Dancer Blog: 2000 Guineas - first of Britain's Triple crown

Sunday, May 6, 2012

2000 Guineas - first of Britain's Triple crown

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While the Kentucky Derby was running in the US it was another 1-2-3 finish for the great grandkids of Northern Dancer in the first of Britain's triple crown the 2000 Guineas. The top three were bred in three different countries in Europe.

1) Camelot (GB) great grandson x3
2) French Fifteen (FR) great great grandson
3) Hermival (IRE) great great grandson x2

images from Nigel French - Empics Sports Photography
video of race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVsIxUjR3Y

2 comments:

AnonymousOctober 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Frank, great blog.....just one BIG thing missing though...FRANKEL.....Dancer 3 x 4....possibly the greatest horse I will ever see....
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UnknownNovember 3, 2012 at 10:17 PM
Thanks for the comment. I apologize in that I don't get a lot of comments and tend to forget to check for them. I will definitely do something for Frankel some time soon.
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Reason for the Blog

I thought it was time to extend the story I started in 2005. This will be a busy week in November 2009 for thoroughbred racing and something tells me my little hero will have played a significant role by the end of the week.

I wrote that on November 2, 2009 and I would say that the Dancer is still playing a significant role. I am trying to update the status of Northern Dancer's legacy using excerpts from my book which was completed in 2007 and published in 2008 along with today's thoroughbred racing news. If you are confused it may be because in addition to inserting the latest (2009) news I also decided to shift around my chapter flow from the original book which also featured many time shifted chapters to begin with. I am confusing myself just trying to describe it. Back to the future - it is Nov 12, 2009 for another 5 minutes.

Quotes describing Northern Dancer from the CBC Life and Times Biography

"They say the north wind was tangled in his mane"

"The pony from Canada"

"The little dancer"

"The little horse with a big heart"

"He gave you more resasons to love him"

"You can see the soul of an animal through his eye and Northern Dancer had a particularly deep eye, it was as if you could see forever in there"

"What he represented to us was the heroic"

"Little guy ... big heart, trying his best, never gave up ... it was heroic"

on his relationship with E.P. Taylor - "It was alchemy, they transformed each other"

"He became a Canadian hero"