- Nearctic (horse)
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Nearctic Sire Nearco Dam Lady Angela Damsire Hyperion Sex Stallion Foaled 1954 Country Canada Colour Brown/Black Breeder E. P. Taylor Owner Windfields Farm Trainer Gordon J. McCann Record 47: 21-5-3 Earnings $152,384 Major wins Clarendon Stakes (1956)
Saratoga Special Stakes (1956)
Victoria Stakes (1956)
International Handicap (1957)
Seaway Handicap (1958)
Canadian Maturity Stakes (1958)
Swynford Stakes (1958)
Bold Venture Stakes (1958)
Michigan Mile (1958)Awards Canadian Horse of the Year (1958) Honours Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1977)
Nearctic Stakes at Woodbine RacetrackHorse (Equus ferus caballus) Last updated on January 26, 2010 Nearctic (1954–1973) was an Canadian-bred Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by E. P. Taylor, he was out of the Irish mare Lady Angela, a daughter of the British Champion sire Hyperion. He was sired by the extremely important stallion Nearco.
Conditioned for racing by future Canadian Hall of Fame trainer "Pete" McCann, Nearctic had his most successful season on the track at age four, when he won nine races and was voted Canadian Horse of the Year.
As a sire
Retired to stand at stud at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, he was later moved to stand at Allaire du Pont's Woodstock Farm at Chesapeake City, Maryland. An outstanding stallion, Nearctic sired Kentucky Derby winner and the 20th Century's greatest sire Northern Dancer. He also sired Icecapade, Ice Water, Nonoalco, Northern Queen, and Canadian Hall of Fame inductee, Cool Reception.
Over and above the many highly successful sons of Northern Dancer, Nearctic was the grandsire of Northern Taste, Wild Again, Fanfreluche, Izvestia, and Son of Briartic, among others. He was also the damsire of Kennedy Road and the Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame filly La Prevoyante.
Nearctic appears four generations back on both sides (dam and sire) of champion race horse Big Brown.
Nearctic died at Woodstock Farm at age nineteen on July 27, 1973. He is buried in the farm's equine cemetery.[1]
Pedigree of Nearctic Sire
NearcoPharos Phalaris Polymelus Bromus Scapa Flow Chaucer Anchora Nogara Havresac II Rabelais Hors Concours Catnip Spearmint Sibola Dam
Lady AngelaHyperion Gainsborough Bayardo Rosedrop Selene Chaucer Serenissima Sister Sarah Abbots Trace Tracery Abbots Anne Sarita Swynford Molly Desmond References
- Nearctic's pedigree and partial racing stats
- Jun 2, 1959 Montreal Gazette article on Nearctic's retirement from racing
- Lennox, Muriel Anne, Dark horse : Unravelling The Mystery Of Nearctic (1997) Beach House Books ISBN 978-0969902522
Categories:- 1954 racehorse births
- 1973 racehorse deaths
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Racehorses bred in Ontario
- Racehorses trained in Canada
- Canadian racehorses
- Canadian Thoroughbred Horse of the Year
- Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductees
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