Northernette

Northernette
Sire	Northern Dancer
Grandsire	Nearctic
Dam	South Ocean
Damsire	New Providence
Sex	Filly
Foaled	1974
Country	Canada
Colour	Bay
Breeder	E. P. Taylor
Owner	Syl Asadoorian & Sam Cosentino Peter M. Brant
Trainer	Jerry C. Meyer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr.
Record	33: 13-11-3
Earnings	$404,914
Major wins
Mazarine Stakes (1976) Selene Stakes (1977) Fury Stakes (1977) Canadian Oaks (1977) Top Flight Handicap (1978) Apple Blossom Handicap (1978)
Awards
Canadian Champion 2-Year-Old Filly (1976) Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly (1977)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1987)

Northernette (foaled 1974 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says that she "was among the best Canadian-bred race fillies ever raised in this country."

Background

A full sister to Storm Bird, she was bred by E. P. Taylor, owner of her dam, South Ocean, and her preeminent sire, Northern Dancer. Northernette was purchased at auction by the partnership of Syl Asadoorian and Sam Cosentino who raced her from a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. They entrusted her conditioning to Jerry Meyer.

Racing career

In her two-year-old racing season, Northernette was voted the 1976 Sovereign Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly. At age three in 1977, her victories included an eleven-length win over the best domestic-bred fillies in the Canadian Oaks. She went up against her male counterparts in Canada's most important race, the Queen's Plate, and finished second to Sound Reason.

In August 1977, Northernette's owners sold a controlling interest in her to American Peter M. Brant. Her conditioning was then taken over by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Frank Whiteley whose son David, as well as Shug McGaughey, were both working as his apprentices. Under McGaughey, Northernette won the Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas then was sent north to Aqueduct Racetrack where David Whiteley saddled her to a win in the Top Flight Handicap. In the last race of her career, Northernette finished second to American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Tempest Queen in the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky.

Northernette's 1977 performances earned her Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly honors.

Stud record

Retired to broodmare duty, Northernette's offspring met with only limited success on the racetrack. She was first bred to U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Damascus, producing her first foal in 1980. Her other matings were to notable sires such as Mr. Prospector, Alydar, Seattle Slew, Blushing Groom, Alleged, Woodman, and her last that proudced a filly in 1996 was to A.P. Indy.

Northernette was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1987.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Northernette (CAN), bay mare, 1974

Sire Northern Dancer (CAN) 1961	Nearctic (CAN) 1954	Nearco	Pharos
			Nogara
		Lady Angela	Hyperion
			Sister Sarah
	Natalma (USA) 1957	Native Dancer	Polynesian
			Geisha
		Almahmoud	Mahmoud
			Arbitrator
Dam South Ocean (CAN) 1967	New Providence (CAN) 1956	Bull Page	Bull Lea
			Our Page
		Fair Colleen	Preciptic
			Fairvale
	Shining Sun (CAN) 1962	Chop Chop	Flares
			Sceptical
		Solar Display	Sun Again
			Dark Display (Family 4-j)

References

• Northernette at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame