The Dancer

[Abid1974]

When did Hurricane Run win Epsom derby?

That was Teen O So not Nijinsky in photo.

Invasor belongs to Blushing Groom line. (from Pakistan).

[fabusys]

@Abid1974 Thanks for your feedback. You are absolutely right on Hurricane Run - He was horse of the year that year and won Prix and Irish Derby (not Epsom) my bad at that time. A few people have told me that was not Nijinsky in that photo but at the time a few of us were under the impression it was him. As for the great Invasor you are right again on his sire of sire but his sire Candy Stripes came from the great Lyphard broodmare Bubble Gum hence the connection to Lyphard.

[Abid1974]

@fabusys very nice video when we say Lyphard.We can't forget a name.

Yeas DANCING BRAVE.

[TicinoParadise]

Thanks for the Video!. Him along with N2 are the Pride of Canadian Racing!. Horses Like Northern Dancer, and nijisky2 were very influential stallions in Europe after also.

[fabusys]

@TicinoParadise Nijinsky was definitely the one that thrust the Dancer into the International spotlight and from there it just exploded.

[raynewolfe43]

Wow....you did a great job on this and it shows that you did your homework. As a long time horse lover and former groom.......this made my day. TY for a great video!

[otherlyn]

To all of you who are fortunate enough to share your lives with a horse, and especially one of the line of The Dancer...please put a kiss onto their cheek, and whisper "I Love You" into their nostrils for me. OK?

[otherlyn]

I can always see The Dancer in the eyes of his "children"...his sons and daughters, and their descendants. The all have his "eye." He is unmistakably there...HERE...in them.

[otherlyn]

I can always see The Dancer in the eyes of his "children"...his sons and daughters, and their descendants. The all have his "eye." He is unmistakably there...HERE...in them.

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@otherlyn i own one of his descendants :)

[blondehorselover101]

i own one of his great granddaughters!

[fabusys]

@blondehorselover101 what's her name?

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@fabusys i own one of his great great grandsons :) Distant Diamond :)

[blondehorselover101]

@fabusys shes called clochemerle!

[fabusys]

@blondehorselover101 The only clochemerle I see is a gelding 1993. Who was her dam and sire?

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@blondehorselover101 mee too!! well i think its great great grandson :) 

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@blondehorselover101 same except its his great grandson :) :P whats ur horses name? xx

[aliabideen]

Can a ordinary thoroughbred with no special blood line can be a great race horse ?

becoz when it all started there was no blue blood....

[sainglain]

you are very good a making videos :-)

[MrNativeDancer]

Hey was wondering why no mention of Sadlers Wells, then towards the end he was mentioned haha I am sure Sadlers Wells is the best from the Northern Dancer line.He seems so much like him in many ways.

Thanks for posting a this fab video.

[fabusys]

@MrNativeDancer

I think I was going in chronilogical order of the births of his firts generation. You are right in that Sadlers Wells could have been most like the old man and perhaps the greatest sire of his sons - 13 years atop Britain's sire list.

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

He's related to Nijinsky right?? I own nijinsky's great grandson... well one of them :)

[fabusys]

@XoSophieandEbonyoX Yes, he was Nijinsky's daddy.

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@fabusys thought so :)

[XoSophieandEbonyoX]

@fabusys cool i own distand Diamond who is distant musics son :)

Northern Dancer> Nijinsky>Musicanti>Distant Music> Distant Diamond i think :)

[fabusys]

@XoSophieandEbonyoX According to his pedigree chart - Distant Diamond an Irish Bred colt who raced 5 times with 1 win. He has Northern Dancer blood coming in 3 times through Nijinsky once and Lyphard twice. Sire Distant Music has Lyphard on sire's side and Nijinsky on dam's side while dam Musicanti has Lyphard blood also.

[fabusys]

thanks, I don't know if you saw it but the remix of this gets my audio back of race call(s) and more fitted music.

[fabusys]

You are absolutely right. After 7,000 views you are the first to point out that error. Thank goodness my book was right. That is the first thing I checked. In my book I described 3 of the Montjeu offspring in a row - Hurricane Run, Motivator and Scorpion. In the book I correctly state Motivator winning the Epsom. I think I brushed over my own book too quickly when I did the video. Thanks - how did you pick up that mistake - are you connected to either Hurricane or Motivator?

fab

[andrewkr6]

You say in your video that Hurricane Run won the Epsom Derby. I think he actually came second behind Motivator?

[WezDott95]

a lot of these horses were trained by Vincent O'Brien and ridden by Lester Piggot

[fabusys]

Yes Wez. Vincent O'Brien was a very key person in the future success of the Dancer as a stallion because of his success with a lot of these ones - espicially Nijinsky.

[lauras525]

yeah Loxley race 9 races but he was no good lol! His trainer said that he will do well coz of his bloodlines but he wasn't! He's a mint jumper tho.

[lauras525]

this is my horses great great grandad, spitting image of my thoroughbred. great video=D

[fabusys]

thanks, what is your horses name? sire? dam?

[lauras525]

Loxley, son of shewillifshewants and Ezzoud his granddad is the last Tycoon. Loxley is the spitting image of the dancer =D!!

[fabusys]

I see Loxley 1999 gelding.

Actually double great grandad with Lyphard on your dam's side. Grand Dam Dedicated Lady produced some stakes winners.

[fearnessgirl]

i been around thoughbreds my whole life. my dad says there will never be another. all the top bloodlines are the dancer's..

[fabusys]

I missed the Queen's Plate today but checked as soon as I got home and the top 3 finishers were all descendants of Northern Dancer - not always the case in Canada's Plate.

[dazzlethe1]

then came nijinsky

[fabusys]

yes - he was instrumental in Northern Dancer's International impact and a great Champion.

[lindylu56]

Northern dancer was probably Willy Shoemaker's one that got away.. he almost was about to ride him in one of the triple crown races and the owners picked someone else.. i bet til the day he died he regretted that he never rode him :(

[fabusys]

shoe rode dancer to win florida derby before kentucky but shoe's coice to ride the favorite hill rise in k derby - dancer had many jockeys in his 18-14-2-2 record.

[ladyofvladimir]

SIGNORE, dammi un cavallo come Nother Dancer, figlio del lampo e degno di un re e che sia la bestia più veloce che ce. . . . Forza NIL

[fabusys]

sorry my spanish is very very weak - sounds like you have a horse out of a northern dancer dam?? her name??

[lindylu56]

Awesome horse. Thanks for making this video. I am going to keep it. I loved Northern Dancer. If you go to Woodbine in Toronto, there is an iron horse statue of Northern Dancer just outside the track...that says volumes and best of all he's was Canadian and his 3 white socks live on. :)

[fabusys]

yes, great statue and other tributes in hall of fame at woodbine. i still haven't checked belmont stakes this year but kentucky derby and preakness top 3 in each both descendants of dancer. apologies on music - i had 3 great simon and garfunkel tunes which i built video around - had to change music because of copyright issue. put a friends tracks to it on another video.

[lindylu56]

I just loved the video even without music..it made me cry...I thought i was the only one that remembered Northern dancer LOL. What horses in the Derby and Preakness are descendants of dancer? I tried to investigate it but got so confused I gave up. I bet on Mine That Bird and Dunkirk yesterday ..never saw Summer Bird coming.. I nearly had a heart attack in the last leg of the Belmont yesterday awesome race...Please let me know about the Dancers descendants please..thanks :)

[lindylu56]

Also I will ask my daughter what this lady below said as my girl does speak Spanish..hope that can help you respond..

[RachaelAngelx]

Moscow Society - Gara Girl

[fabusys]

finally getting back to you - could not find gala girl but had heard of moscow society - he was pretty decent sire with one runner winning over1 million pounds but almost all best runners were gelded and a few good mares but couldn't see where they extended line with any success. Probably if not for Winnie Taylor the Dancer might have been gelded as well - he was a handful except for her and some children

[RachaelAngelx]

Friday Girl

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[fabusys]

could not find her in pedigree database who was sire or dam?

[RachaelAngelx]

This is my thoroughbred mare's great grandad :)

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[fabusys]

not unusual, what is her name?

[fabusys]

you can view in higher quality by adding &fmt=18 to end of address.

fab

[pontecanis]

I checked wikipedia~they have 416 PAGES of thoroughbreds related to Northern Dancer, described as the most successful sire in thoroughbred history~approx 62% of thoroughbred winning horses have the Dancer bloodline...no other horse comes near! He would have won the Triple Crown if not poorly ridden in the Belmont, IMHO...

[123Metalguru]

i liked this video :)

hi anyone want to chat l8

[manfreadstraw]

Fantastic history lesson there on the mighty Dancer and all her famous descendants, and as you say it's far from over just yet! Terrific video clip! Thanks again!

[fabusys]

Thanks manf I should have responded with new version with Big Brown because I was able to add Makybe Diva's video clip of 2005 Cup win to that one as well.

[lindylu56]

Wasn't Northern Dancer a boy?

[lindylu56]

Look, whoever gave a negative to my comment about Dancer being a boy NOT A GIRL here Wikipedia

"Northern Dancer May 27, 1961 - November 16, 1990 was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history". So to the idiot that gave me a negative get your info right before you do that shit to people...so he;s a bay colt.. not a boy..I am still right

[welovejockeys]

his name is troy :)

short for trogen dancer, not sure if i spelled it right :S loll

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[fabusys]

Can't find him - who was sire or dam??

[seefi007]

i've searched the net...

my horse name is Sea-Reef. Northern Dancer is "only" the great grandfather.

[fabusys]

full sister siva had 1 solid grandson thru impulsive decision

[welovejockeys]

i own northen dancers great grandson believe it or noot :)x

[seefi007]

hehe... me too i think... what's the name of your horse?

[ALYSHEBANDTHEBID]

Great vid, All of this would not be possible had it not been for Discovery, a sire who produce exceptional mares, two of his mares Geisha and Miss Disco gave birth to Native Dance and Bold Ruler,.Native Dancer like his dam sire kept on producing good mares, as well as fine sires like Alydar, Mr Prospector, Raise a Native, ...this will be a long list, Northern Dancer sire was not a good sire, so lets not forget Natalma, who passed the royal blood, Native dancer blood is a factor on k derby odds.

[fabusys]

agree on all counts - becomes really difficult to compare sires from different eras and how do you not consider sire of sires or grandsire of sires when you consider the great ones.

[ALYSHEBANDTHEBID]

"Northern Dancer sire was not a good sire".......Northern Dancer sire was a good sire, I wish Danzig run the triple crown, i think Northern Dancer was not just a good sire, he was the one of the best sire that i will not argue about, i wish his sons did as well as they did in Europe, Alydar would have done what Northern Dancer sons n daughter did in europe is life was cut short...very sad..

[fabusys]

Hi all book finally published it's withh trafford publishing just go to book store and search for the dancer

[borjaddm]

hey great video, i too have a real soft spot for northern dancer but i never saw him race as i'm only nineteen, any way i'm horse racing mad and a pedigreeholic kind of guy i just want to let you know that Dubai Millennium is not a son of shareef dancer but a son of Seeking The Gold who isnt from the northern dancer line but from the Raise A Native line through Mr pospector,anyhow his dam Colorado Dancer is by Shareef Dancer which makes Dubai Millenium a Northern Dancer decendant through his dam

[borjaddm]

i hope u understand what i mean and i'm not trying to be rude, just helpful so u dont make the same mistake in your book, please let me know when u release your book, it would be great to read it and just to let you know my dad stands a stallion called Leadership in spain who is a decendant of the dancer and i hope he too passes on thos special genes to his foals. Again great video and all the best with your book, Borja Hormaeche

[fabusys]

Thanks, it was my first ever attempt. I realized the day after I posted it that it should have said grandson of Shareef Dancer not son. I also realized I mispelt his name also.

[possumteazer]

wow u have a commitment to this horse.. i've never been interested in racing or racehorses, until i found out my new horse was born to be a racehorse (turned out to be not very good apparently). i recently that she's related to northen dancer and her damsire is lyphard... but i didn't know wat any of that ment lol

[fabusys]

what was your horses registered name?

[possumteazer]

us and them, fathers pips pride and mothers tasskeen

[fabusys]

Irish bred mare 1997 - not much showing up with siblings. Pips Pride did produce one very good mare in Pipalong 1996 stakes winner of 420,000 pounds.

[possumteazer]

lol thats so kl... heehee , i don't mind if she has no good siblings, she wasn't very good herself lol. thanks

[lindylu56]

Now you do..you have a gem  :) Lucky you , love your horse even more now :)

[kyldy]

Wonderful Majestic Warior is a contender! both Bold ruler and Dancer are in his line and Secretariat! by the way Some of us think that the Americans don't like to be beat and Dancer should have won the Belmont. Hartack was not liked by all. Would not want to accuse him of cheating but I will always find it funny Dancer would race one last time and win so decidedly! I fell in love with the Derby at age 11 in 1964! Still love them.

[fabusys]

I agree on Bill Hartack - tried to kill 2 birds with one stone - relpy here.

Thank You. The Dancer was my childhood hero - I was 11 when he won the Derby in '64. I followed the careers of a few of his sons and daughters until the late 70's then 2 years ago started researching his impact as a sire (after a 25 year break). it culminated in a book that will be published in a few weeks.

When I finished the book I started playing with videos for the first time and threw this together.

[courtyboy02]

Excellent video! A fitting tribute to the Dancer!

[fabusys]

Thank You. The Dancer was my childhood hero - I was 11 when he won the Derby in '64. I followed the careers of a few of his sons and daughters until the late 70's then 2 years ago started researching his impact as a sire (after a 25 year break). it culminated in a book that will be published in a few weeks.

When I finished the book I started playing with videos for the first time and threw this together.

[fabusys]

Hi folks, a couple of problems I noticed after uploading 1) typos on Dubai Millennium and said son of Shareef dancer - actually grandson through daughter Colorado Dancer.