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Chong, Kevin.
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Taylor, Edward Plunket, 1901-1989.
Luro, Horatio.
Hartack, Bill.
Northern Dancer (Race horse)
Race horses -- Canada -- Biography.
Horse racing -- Canada -- History.
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Chong, Kevin.
Taylor, Edward Plunket, 1901-1989.
Luro, Horatio.
Hartack, Bill.
Northern Dancer (Race horse)
Race horses -- Canada -- Biography.
Horse racing -- Canada -- History.
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Northern Dancer : the legendary horse that inspired a nation / Kevin Chong.
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Chong, Kevin.
Viking, 2014.
Call #:
798
.4
C548n
Subjects
Taylor, Edward Plunket, 1901-1989.
Luro, Horatio.
Hartack, Bill.
Northern Dancer (Race horse)
Race horses -- Canada -- Biography.
Horse racing -- Canada -- History.
ISBN:
9780670067794 (hc.)
0670067792 (hc.)
Description:
xv, 304 p. : ill.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In every sport there are a select few competitors that come to define the excellence that all others must forever aspire to. In 'the sport of kings,' there is one that stands alone. Northern Dancer is not only a Canadian legend, but the cornerstone of his breed. It has been estimated that 70 percent of the thoroughbreds alive today are his descendants, which includes the majority of the horses running in the biggest races around the world. His offspring received recordbreaking prices on the auction floor. While much has been written about Northern Dancer's prepotence as a sire, this book is the only one devoted to his 1964 campaign, which saw him win two of the Triple Crown races in the U.S. and Canada's Queen’s Plate. In that time, he captured the attention of the world and the hearts of all Canadians. The people whose lives he touched: E.P. Taylor, the visionary industrialist whose web of business placed him at the end of every consumer transaction for every Canadian and made him the subject of scorn; Horatio Luro, the dapper Argentinean trainer (and tango dancer, pilot, and race car driver) who was notorious for his affairs with Hollywood starlets and his tender treatment of horses; and Bill Hartack, a wildly successful jockey whose squabbles with the press and his inability to conceal his unvarnished truth from influential owners and trainers was, by 1964, beginning to affect his career. The remarkable 1964 Triple Crown and Queen's Plate races. and, a national hero.
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