{{Short description|Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}} {{about|the racehorse|other uses|northern queen (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox racehorse | horsename = Northern Queen | image = | caption = | sire = [[Nearctic (horse)|Nearctic]] | grandsire = [[Nearco]] | dam = [[Victoriana (horse)|Victoriana]] | damsire = [[Windfields]] | sex = [[Filly]] | foaled = 1962 | country = [[Canada]] | colour = [[Bay (horse)|Dark Bay]] | breeder = [[E. P. Taylor]] | owner = [[Windfields Farm]] | trainer = 1) [[Tom Fleming (horseman)|Tom Fleming]]<br>2) [[Horatio Luro]] (at 3) | record = not found | earnings = not found | race = [[Shady Well Stakes]] (1964)<br>[[E. P. Taylor Stakes|Nettie Handicap]] (1965)<br>[[Wonder Where Stakes]] (1965)<br>[[Woodbine Oaks|Canadian Oaks]] (1965) | awards= [[Canadian Champion Three-Old Filly]] (1965) | honours = |updated= }} '''Northern Queen''' (foaled 1962 in [[Ontario]]) was a Canadian [[Thoroughbred]] [[horse racing|racehorse]].
==Background== Northern Queen was a bay mare bred by [[E. P. Taylor]] and raced by his [[Windfields Farm]], she was a daughter of [[Nearctic (horse)|Nearctic]], sire of [[Northern Dancer]]. Her dam was [[Victoriana (horse)|Victoriana]], a top producing [[mare]] who was a daughter of [[Windfields]]. She was trained from a base at [[Woodbine Racetrack]] in [[Toronto]] by [[Tom Fleming (horseman)|Tom Fleming]],
==Racing record== Among her starts at age two Northern Queen won the [[Shady Well Stakes]] and notably ran third against males in the [[Coronation Futurity]]. At age three in 1965, her race conditioning was taken over by future [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|U.S. Racing Hall of Fame]] trainer, [[Horatio Luro]]. For Luro, Northern Queen won Canada's most important race for three-year-old fillies, the [[Woodbine Oaks|Canadian Oaks]]. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T4Y1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Wp8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,4599487&dq=northern-queen&hl=en] In addition, she took the inaugural running of the [[Wonder Where Stakes]] and the [[E. P. Taylor Stakes|Nettie Handicap]]. Although she competed with limited success against top fillies at tracks in [[New York (state)|New York State]], Northern Queen still earned Canadian champion filly honours.
==Breeding record== Although Northern Queen was bred to major stallions such as [[Ribot (horse)|Ribot]], [[Hoist The Flag]], and twice to [[Buckpasser]], none of her foals met with much success in racing.
==References== * [http://www.pedigreequery.com/northern+queen Northern Queen's pedigree and partial racing stats]
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