Northern Dancer Blog: Orb wins 139th Kentucky Derby

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Orb wins 139th Kentucky Derby

It was the first Kentucky Derby for hall of famer Shug McGauhey and another big win for jockey Joel Rosario. It was a 1-2 finish for descendants of Northern Dancer with longshot Golden Soul finishing second and co-favourite Revolutionary third. Orb is a great great great grandson of the Dancer's son Nijinsky and Golden Soul a grandson of Northern Dancer's son Sadlers Wells.

Image from AP

video of race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70BAs0p9enA

great photo gallery from yahoo sports
http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/2013-kentucky-derby-139th-run-for-the-roses-slideshow/horse-racing-139th-kentucky-derby-photo-232610488--rah.html

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Reason for the Blog

I thought it was time to extend the story I started in 2005. This will be a busy week in November 2009 for thoroughbred racing and something tells me my little hero will have played a significant role by the end of the week.

I wrote that on November 2, 2009 and I would say that the Dancer is still playing a significant role. I am trying to update the status of Northern Dancer's legacy using excerpts from my book which was completed in 2007 and published in 2008 along with today's thoroughbred racing news. If you are confused it may be because in addition to inserting the latest (2009) news I also decided to shift around my chapter flow from the original book which also featured many time shifted chapters to begin with. I am confusing myself just trying to describe it. Back to the future - it is Nov 12, 2009 for another 5 minutes.

Quotes describing Northern Dancer from the CBC Life and Times Biography

"They say the north wind was tangled in his mane"

"The pony from Canada"

"The little dancer"

"The little horse with a big heart"

"He gave you more resasons to love him"

"You can see the soul of an animal through his eye and Northern Dancer had a particularly deep eye, it was as if you could see forever in there"

"What he represented to us was the heroic"

"Little guy ... big heart, trying his best, never gave up ... it was heroic"

on his relationship with E.P. Taylor - "It was alchemy, they transformed each other"

"He became a Canadian hero"