Even then, Northern Dancer ran as if he had wings. After smashing the track record in the Kentucky Derby, the stubby bay colt from Canada captured the 1964 Preakness by 21/4 lengths, pulling away ...

A bay colt named Northern Dancer earned the roses in 2 minutes flat in 1964. That record would hold until 1973, when Secretariat won in 1:59:40, a time that remains unbroken. The impact of ...

Woodbine Entertainment Group will be celebrating the life of Northern Dancer from the end of May through the end of June. Beginning May 27, the date of what would have been the Dancer's 50th ...

It was, perhaps not coincidentally, Northern Dancer’s time record that Secretariat broke when he won the Derby nine years later in 1973. The record remains today. Furthermore, Northern Dancer ...

On looks alone, Northern Dancer did not stand out as he entered the starting gate for the 90th running of the Kentucky Derby in 1964. He was the small bay colt from Canada nobody had wanted to buy ...

During the week of the 151st Kentucky Derby, one of the most intense points of commentary came from the observation that Secretariat (by Bold Ruler) was in the pedigree of every Kentucky Derby ...