Northern Dancer Herd

Kongo Rikishio. On April 14, 2007, at Hanshin, Japan, the $950,000 Milers Cup GR 11 for 4YO and up was run over about 8 furlongs on turf. The winner, Kongo Rikishio, a bay Irish bred horse, 5YO, carried 128 lb, and was a SW in Japan at 3YO and 4YO before taking this GR-11 event this year. He is a son of Stravinsky, who is a son of the Northern Dancer stallion, Nureyev. Kongo Rikishio is out of the well bred unraced mare, Principium, a daughter of Preakness and Belmont winner, Hansel.

Hansel's dam, Count on Bonnie, 1981, was basically a Windfields product, being by the Northern Dancer home stallion, Dancing Count from the Victoria Park mare, Buena Notte. Hansel was not much of a success at stud, but here, as broodmare sire of Kongo Rikishio, Hansel's daughter has produced a winner of over $2.4 million. Principium is out of the mare Nazoo, 1988, a daughter of Nijinsky 11 from the excellent broodmare, La Dame du Lac. Nazoo was a SW and produced FR-GR-1 SW Nadia, a daughter of Nashwan, as well as the stakes placed runners Sunray Superstar, also by Nashwan, and Capped for Victory.

La Dame du Lac, a bay daughter, 1973, of Round Table from Cosmah, by Cosmic Bomb, produced 5 SW. She was unraced and sent to Ireland in 1987. She died in 1999. Two of her SW were full siblings to Nazoo, by Nijinsky 11; these were the GR-111 SW colt, Lake Como, a sire in Japan and Single Combat, also a GR-111 SW colt. The winning mare La Confidence, also by Nijinsky 11 from La Dame du Lac, gave us the magnificent Flawlessly, a daughter of Affirmed, champion turf mare twice in the USA and winner of over $2.5 million.

La Dame du Lac was bred to Nijinsky 11's son Royal Academy at least twice. One of the offspring, Heeremandi was a minor SW but GR-1 placed and a stakes producer. The other, Lake Placid, also was a stakes producer. When bred to the Northern Dancer stallion, Sadler's Wells, La Dame du Lac gave us SW Miznah, who became the dam of English GR-11 SW colt, Zindabad, by Shirley Heights. Miznah is granddam of 2006 Irish GR-111 3YO, An Tadh, a colt by champion Halling. Bred to another Northern Dancer stallion, Taylor bred Storm Bird, La Dame du Lac produced winning Allison's Dance, a graded stakes placed producer and Alpine Swift, dam of 2 stakes placed runners in Japan and granddam of Japanese GR-111 SW in 2006, Roman Empire.

For present purposes we can leave off La Dame du Lac's immediate production record by mentioning her Sir Ivor daughter, unraced Lake Ivor, granddam of American GR-111 SW, Laura's Pistolette, a daughter of Big Pistol and winner of over $500,000. To determine where all this quality in La Dame du Lac came from, consider her dam Cosmah. She is a half sister to Natalma, dam of Northern Dancer. Cosmah gave us, among other offspring, the multiple champion, Tosmah, by Tim Tam, the very good runner and premier sire, Halo, by Hail to Reason, and Queen Sucree, by Ribot, dam of Kentucky Derby winner, Cannonade, by Bold Bidder. Queen Sucree foaled other stakes winners and was the granddam of the ill-fated millionaire colt, Stephen's Odyssey, and of his full sister, Lotka, both by Danzig.

Another daughter of Cosmah, Perfecta, by Swaps, gave us her grandson, L'Emigrant, by The Minstrel, champion 3YO colt in France, and granddaughter GR-11 SW Salpinx, by Northern Dancer, who became a stakes producer. There is much more black type in this family, but the point is made. Kongo Rikishio is an appropriately accomplished member of the group, which is more than just appropriately successful all in all.

Magician. On March 31, 2007, at Gulfstream Park, Street Magician, a bay colt, 3YO, from the first crop of the exciting Street Cry from Magical Meadow, by Meadowlake won the $125,000 Aventura Stakes for 3YO over 7 furlongs. Magical Meadow is a chestnut mare, 1995, out of SW Special Kell, 1987, by Parfaitement from Ran's Chick. Parfaitement, 1980, was a SW of over $220,000, a son of Halo from Double Axle.

Double Axle was a chestnut mare, 1974, with a blaze, a right white fore and a right white hind who sold as a yearling for $24,500. She was an allowance winner, a daughter of The Axe 11 and the first foal from the Windfields' stallion Nearctic mare, Snow Bower, 1969. Snow Bower, a bay, had a left white fore and a left white hind and won one race from 26 starts. She was out of Sulenan, who was by Tompion from Blue Canary. Snow Bower would sell as a broodmare for $45,000 in 1974 and $35,000 in 1975. She was from the same 1969 Nearctic foal crop as major SW and sire, Icecapade, fast miler SW North Sea, multiple SW and good sire, Explodent, SW and stakes producer, Cool Ruth, stakes producer, Come Near, and unraced stakes producer, Near Me Now.

On March 31, 2007, at Delta Downs, the $100,000 Green Oaks was contested at 8 furlongs for 3YO fillies. The winner was Alba Dabas Secret, a West Virginia bred daughter of Madraar out of Alba Daba Dou, by Sheikh Albadou from Marshua's Secret, by Secretariat. Madraar, a chestnut, 1994, raced 6 years in North America and the UAE, with 7 wins and over $84,000 in earnings. Alba Dabas Secret is his first SW as a sire. He is a royally bred son of Mr. Prospector from Jood, 1989, who is by Taylor bred Nijinsky 11 from Taylor bred Kamar, by Key to the Mint from Taylor bred Square Angel. Jood was the dam of the SW, GR-1 placed Hi Dubai, a filly by Rahy. But her other foal by Rahy, the colt Fantastic Light, was "one of the ones" as a runner for his connections He won 10 stakes, 8 of them GR-1, and placed or showed in 8 more, winning just short of $8.5 million. He was champion older male at 4YO in the UAE, champion older male at 5YO in Ireland and champion turf male at 5YO in North America.

Jood, who placed at 2YO and 3YO in her only two starts in England, was a daughter of Taylor bred Kamar, a champion 3YO filly in Canada and a Broodmare of the Year in the USA in 1990. The family is rich in black type.

To 2007 with 82 foals in 2 crops, 27 runners and only 7 winners, it does not appear that Madraar is off to a quick start at stud. He has not stepped up to his pedigree. But then again, as a sire, neither has Fantastic Light, Madraar's justifiably much esteemed half brother.

Broodmare. On March 31, 2007, Canadian bred Jambalaya, who in his last start had won the Gulfstream Park Breeders Cup Turf S GR-1T, in this start won the Bulleit Bourbon Pan American Hdcp GR-111T, also at Gulfstream, pushing his lifetime earnings to about $890,000. He is a brown gelding, 2002, by Langfuhr from Muskrat Suzie, by Windfields bred Vice Regent from Muskrat Love, by Muscovite.

Langfuhr is a successful stallion son of Danzig (by Northern Dancer) from Sweet Briar Too, by Briartic (by Northern Dancer's sire, Nearctic). Vice Regent is a Taylor bred son of Northern Dancer. Muscovite is a son of Taylor bred Nijinsky 11, who is a son of Northern Dancer. Thus we see Nearctic and Northern Dancer are all over this pedigree. Consider too that Muskrat Love was dam of SW Muskrat Sammy, a gelding full brother by Vice Regent to Muskrat Suzie. Despite the successful names and runners in his pedigree, Jambalaya cost only $2,500 as a Keeneland September yearling.

Now consider the March 31, 2007, running of the $100,000 Gulf Coast Classic Stakes at Delta Downs over 8 and one half furlongs for 4YO and up. The winner here was the 4YO brown colt, Silent Pleasure, a son of Kentucky Derby winner Real Quiet from the stakes placed winner Wholelotapleasure, by Vice Regent from the over $550,000 earning, SW mare, Littlebitapleasure. Silent Pleasure pushed his earnings to over $150,000. This SW, again out of a Vice Regent mare, cost $2,700 as a yearling. His dam, Wholelotapleasure, sold at the same sale for the princely sum of $4,500, in foal to Kissin Kris.

Someone was missing something in the stories of these two SW, Jambalaya and Silent Pleasure. As of 2007, Vice Regent, as broodmare sire, had 317 dams of 2,126 foals, 1,609 runners (76%), 1,178 winners (55%), 293 2YO winners (14%), a 1.92 AEI compared to a 1,52 CI and 124 SW. These are not bad numbers. Some broodmare sires just don't get "no respect" obviously. One can also say, "What a steal!"

Bill Place. On April 7, 2007 at Aqueduct, the $150,000 Bay Shore Stakes GR-111, at 7 furlongs for 3YO was won by a bay gelding, Bill Place, a former $50,000 claim who was carrying co-topweight of 120 lb. The Windfields angle to this story comes through his sire, Master Bill, a chestnut foaled in 1993.

For our purposes, the story begins with Master Bill's great granddam, the E.P. Taylor yearling purchase, Impetuous Lady, a daughter of Hasty Road from the Argentinian bred SW Escocesa 11. Impetuous Lady would be unplaced in her only start. She became the dam of 4 SW for Windfields, Northern Fling, a colt, and Countess North, both by Northern Dancer, Regal Gal by Viceregal, and the mare of interest here, Impetuous Gal, by one of Nearctic's best sons, Briartic.

Taylor bred Impetuous Gal won 4 stakes, including the GR-11 Matron H, was second in 3 more, including a GR-111 and third in 5 others, again including a GR-111. Her earnings were just shy of $240,000. Her most successful daughter, Daring Danzig, by Danzig produced SW Ecton Park, 1996, a sire by Forty Niner who won over $1.5 million while winning 4 stakes, including the GR-1 Super Derby. Daring Danzig also produced the millionaire Japanese runner, Pit Fighter, by Pulpit. Further, Daring Danzig gave us Daring Heart, a filly by Sunday Silence, a Japanese GR-111 SW of over $1.7 million to 4YO in 2006.

Besides Daring Danzig, Impetuous Gal gave us Idabel, a colt and GR-111 SW by Mr. Prospector, sire of Forty Niner. Both Ecton Park and Master Bill are by Forty Niner in this family. Impetuous Gal's most important runner was her daughter, Banker's Lady, a chestnut daughter of Taylor bred Nijinsky 11, who won 8 of 10 starts, including the Ladies H GR-1, the Top Flight H GR-1 and the Shuvee H GR-1 with, in addition, victories in the Long Look H GR-11 and the Bed o'Roses GR-11. Her earnings were over $590,000.

Master Bill, son of Banker's Lady, has a full brother in Banker's Gold, a colt obviously also by Forty Niner. Banker's Gold won over $460,000 with victories in the GR-11 Tom Fool H and the Peter Pan GR-11, with seconds in the Metropolitan H GR-1 and the Carter GR-1 and a third in the Dwyer GR-11. Master Bill was in the money in 5 of 6 starts, earning over $54,000. He stands at stud in Florida for $2,000 live foal. His now graded stakes winning son, Bill Place, has been a model of consistency with 4 wins, including the Jimmy Winkfield S, also at 3YO and 3 seconds, including the Fred "Cappy" Capossela S at 3YO in 7 starts. His earnings stand at over $180,000.

Both Bill Place's dam, Magical Place, by Out of Place and his second dam, Captivating Court, by Court Trial were non-winners. Shades of Impetuous Lady! There are, by the way, more stakes winners and stakes producers from the Impetuous Lady family than I have mentioned here.

Hanshin. On April 7, 2007 at Hanshin, Japan, at the venerable age of 6YO, a grey Japanese bred mare, Jolly Dance, won her first stakes race in the $880,000 Hanshin Himba S (Jpn-GR-11), a race for fillies and mares, 4YO and up at about 7 furlongs. Her sire, Dance in the Dark, a champion Japanese 3YO was by Sunday Silence from Dancing Key, by Windfields bred Nijinsky 11 from Key Partner. Her dam, Peterhof's Patea, also grey, was a daughter of Peterhof from Tea at Ten, by Drone.

Up to and including this race, Jolly Dance had made 17 starts, with 6 wins, 5 seconds and 1 third with earnings now over $1.2 million. Dance in the Dark is an example of overbreeding, as he had sired 7 crops with 810 foals, 761 runners (94%, which is impressive), just 270 winners (33%, which is pathetic) and 19 SW (2%, another sorry figure). Jolly Dance's dam, Peterhof's Patea, was a trooper, making 52 starts from 2YO to 6YO, with 16 wins and over $620,000 in winnings. She won 14 stakes, ran second in 12 more, and ran third in 5, including 3 GR-111 efforts. She was a top of the rung runner within her western circuit.

She was also the best offspring by far of her sire, Peterhof. He was a member of Taylor bred The Minstrel's first crop. The Minstrel was a champion son of Northern Dancer from Fleur, by Victoria Park. A bay colt, 1979, Peterhof was a son of the royally bred unraced mare, Millicent, 1969, by Cornish Prince from Milan Mill, 1962, by Princequillo from Virginia Water, by Count Fleet from Red Ray, by Hyperion. Milan Mill was dam of the tremendous European champion, Mill Reef.

Peterhof made 5 starts as a 2YO in Ireland and England, winning the Flying Childers S Eng-11 at 5 furlongs, and the Curragh Stakes Ire-111, also at 5 furlongs. As a 3YO, from 3 starts in England and Ireland, he ran second in the Ballyogan S Ire-111 at 5 furlongs. The winner of that race, Longleat, was also by The Minstrel. Peterhof retired with 8 starts, 2 wins and 2 seconds, with earnings of over $38,000. In 1991, the date of my materials, he was standing for $3,000 live foal, on a farm in the state of Washington, the state where Peterhof's Patea had been foaled. The totals from his first four crops were 112 foals, 86 runners, 58 winners and 6 SW.

Millicent, Peterhof's dam also produced Western Symphony, by Nijinsky 11, a GR-111 SW in Ireland and sire in Australia, and Moscow Ballet, a GR-111 SW in Ireland, also by Nijinsky 11, a California stallion who, from 2 crops up to 1991, sired GR-1 SW Dominant Dancer, a filly with earnings over $425,000. Another winning son of Millicent who became a sire in Australia was Taoiseach, by Northern Dancer, a winner as a 2YO in Ireland and as a 4YO in North America.

Duveen. On March 24, 2007 at Gulfstream Park, Duveen, a brown colt by Horse Chestnut from Casanova Storm, by Storm Cat won the $100,000 Palm Beach Stakes GR-111T at 9 furlongs. Casanova Storm, a winner, stakes placed on turf, was out of unraced Casanova Junction, 1989, a mare by Pleasant Colony from Intentional Move, 1979, by Tentam from Lunar Dancer. Winning Intentional Move was dam of millionaire Gold Mover, by Gold Fever and GR-1 SW Dance Teacher, by Smarten among her offspring. Duveen's half sister by Grand Slam, the filly Cherry Hill Lady was a minor SW on turf.

Lunar Dancer, dam of Intentional Move, was a member of Northern Dancer's third crop, foals of 1968, which included, among the colts the good runner and better sire, SW Northfields, the SW and useful sire Northern Jove, and Nijinsky's full brother Minsky, champion 2YO in Ireland, champion 3YO in Canada and good sire in Japan. Among the Dancer's other fillies of 1968 were the amazing Alma North, winner of 15 stakes, placed in 20 more, top flight SW Aladancer, and SW Lauries Dancer, winner of the Alabama, the Delaware Oaks and the Canadian Oaks, Canadian Horse of the Year as a 3YO and ranked no. 2 in the USA among 3YO fillies in one poll.

Lunar Dancer was a chestnut mare out of With Winnie, by With Pleasure from Efficiency, by Sweep All from Blue Lu, by Blue Larkspur. As a 2YO Lunar Dancer failed to earn a penny from 5 starts. She won a maiden race as a 3YO from 20 starts and an allowance race as a 4YO from 20 more starts. She would produce no SW herself, leaving that to her daughter, Intentional Move and her offspring. Tentam had been specifically procured by Windfields to breed to Northern Dancer mares. One of the biggest successes from that cross was La Voyageuse, a Canadian champion filly by Tentam from Fanfreluche, a champion by the Dancer.

Lunar Dancer was not Taylor bred or owned, but her daughter by Tentam, Intentional Move would have to be considered a major success as a broodmare and product of the cross. Duveen's sire, Horse Chestnut, standing at Claiborne, is a grandson of Sadler's Wells, one of Northern Dancer's greatest stallion sons. Duveen's dam, Casanova Storm, being by Storm Cat also goes directly back to Northern Dancer. The presence of Lunar Dancer gives Duveen a three way cross to the Dancer, which is not rare these days in SW pedigrees. It will be interesting to see if Duveen can improve as the season moves along, or whether GR-111 will be his upper limit.

Nakayama. On April 1, 2007, at Nakayama, Japan, Picaresque Coat, a 5YO Japanese bred bay horse won the GR-111 Lord Derby Challenge Trophy at about 8 furlongs for 4YO and up. Picaresque Coat was a son of Jade Robbery (a son of Mr. Prospector from the Nijinsky 11 half sister to Nureyev, Number). He was out of Fujino Taka Komachi, a Japanese bred daughter of Kolymsky, a chestnut stallion, 1975, who was a son of Northern Dancer from Libro d'Oro, by Francis S.

Kolymsky was a Kentucky bred with a blaze and a left white hind who sold for $145,000 as a yearling. He was initially sent to the British Isles where, as a 2YO, he had one win and two seconds from 4 starts. Back in North America as a 3YO, he scored one allowance win, two seconds and a third from six starts. He may have run as a 4YO. The Japanese were always keen for sons and daughters of Northern Dancer; so it was Kolymsky ended up in Japan. His daughter listed here, Fujino Taka Komachi, 1985, gave us earlier a full sister to Picaresque Coat, SW Yamakatsu Suzuran, a chestnut mare, 1997, a champion 2YO in Japan and earner of $2.5 million, racing from 2YO to 6YO. Picaresque Coat's earnings now stood at over $1 million with his Lord Derby Challenge Trophy victory, his first in a stakes race. As a 4YO he ran second in the Prix Daniel Wildenstein Castel Marie-Loise de la Baule (FR-GR-11) in France, his only previous stakes placing. Kolymsky may be an obscure name in the Northern Dancer story, but when the blood is there it pays to watch out and not be surprised by its surfacing.

August 1989. In 1989, when Norther Dancer was 28 years old, his active stud career over, he had sired 13 stakes horses up to the August date of my materials, among them 6 SW. At the July Keeneland sale that summer, his last two foals, both colts, were sold for a total of $3.5 million with the colt who would be called Northern Park, a bay out of Mrs. Penny, by Great Nephew bringing a sales-topping $2.8 million. He would become a SW in France with multiple stakes placings in long distance racing.

Norther Dancer's last full crop of 1987 produced 3 GR-11 SW, Antisaar, a bay colt from Detroit, by Riverman; Rakeen, a bay colt from Glorious Song, by Halo and Wajd, a chestnut filly from Dahlia, by Vaguely Noble. These three dams were top of the line racing mares, and fine producers. Also in this last crop were 3 other SW, Ladyago, a bay filly from Queen of Song, by His Majesty; Primetime North, a bay filly, Windfields bred, from Rally Around, by Hoist the Flag, and Razeen, a bay colt out of Secret Asset, by Graustark. These were fine achievements for the Dancer, at a ripe old age.

Nakayama. On March 24, 2007, at Nakayama, Japan, Never Bouchon, a brown colt, 4YO By Marvelous Sunday from Pearl Necklace, by Mill Reef won the $1 million Nikkei Sho (Jpn GR-11) for 4YO and up at just over 12 furlongs. It is Never Bouchon's sire, Marvelous Sunday who interests us here. He is a son of the great Sunday Silence and was a champion older male in Japan, a SW of over $5.3 million. From 6 crops up to the present, Marvelous Sunday has sired 257 runners with only 87 winners, 5 of whom were SW. Not a great record, but his dam's family is intriguing for Windfields fans.

The dam is Momiji Dancer, a Japanese bred chestnut daughter of Viceregal 1966 from Momigi 1972. These two are both Windfields breds, in fact both Canadian champions. How far they came to be united. Viceregal we have seen many times, a champion from Northern Dancer's first crop. Momigi sold for $20,000 at the Windfields sale of 1973, a daughter of Laugh Aloud, by Tom Fool, from Hold Me Close, by Native Dancer.

Unraced Hold Me Close was probably purchased by E.P. Taylor to be bred to Nearctic to reproduce the cross which led to Northern Dancer, Nearctic on Native Dancer. She was, however, barren to Nearctic in 1967 and 1968. Her first live foal, Close Embrace, a filly, 1969, by Taylor stallion, Nentego, would also be unraced. Hold Me Close would slip twins to Champlain in 1970, then foal a colt by Tambourine in 1971. Then would come Momigi in 1972. The family had been very quiet when Hold Me Close was offered for sale in foal to Vice Regent in the fall of 1972 after Momigi was weaned. Someone took her for at least the reserve price of $7,500. Momigi thus came close to not being a Taylor bred.

Momigi's half sister, Close Embrace's second foal, Regal Embrace, a bay colt by Vice Regent, as we have seen, would win the Queen's Plate GR-1-C. Her 1982 filly by Vice Regent, Quitman, would be a SW, as we also have noted. Momigi would be a Canadian champion at 3YO and 4YO, with 12 wins from 2YO to 5YO, earnings of over $280,000, including a win over colts on the grass in the Breeders Stakes, third jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown. She would be sent to Japan to be, as we see here, the granddam of a $5 million SW, Marvelous Sunday.

The Vice Regent colt Hold Me Close would produce after being sold by Windfields, Herawn, would be a minor winner. For her new owners, Hold Me Close would produce three winners by Triple Bend, but nothing like Momigi. The Tambourine Taylor bred colt she foaled just before Momigi would be named Irish Rifles, be unplaced at 2YO and die as a 3YO. Different fates, different worlds.

In Japan. On March 25, 2007, Suzuka Phoenix, a 5YO chestnut horse, Japanese bred, won the $1.5 million Takamatsunomi Kinen (JpnGR-1) for 4YO and up at about 6 furlongs at Chukyo, Japan. He is a son of the hugely successful Sunday Silence from the Fairy King (by Northern Dancer) mare, Rose of Suzuka, an Irish bred, 1992, who was out of Rose of Jericho, 1984, by Alleged from Rose Red, 1979, by Northern Dancer from Cambrienne, by Sicambre. From 7 wins in 17 starts, Suzuka Phoenix has earnings of over $2.1 million.

Rose Red was a winner from 2 starts in Ireland. She became the dam of GR-11 SW Zind, a bay colt, 1990, by Law Society, and of SW Legal Right, a bay gelding, 1993, by Alleged, sire of Law Society. Rose Red's daughter Rose of Jericho was an unraced bay mare who gave us Archway, a chestnut colt, 1988, by Thatching, a champion 3YO colt in Ireland. But her biggest success was her Irish bred chestnut son, Dr. Devious, 1989, by Ahonoora, a champion 3YO colt in England, where he won the Ever Ready Epsom Derby GR-1 and the Kerry Group Irish Champion Stakes GR-1. He finished second in the Budweiser Irish Derby and earned over $1.5 million. He even took a shot at the Kentucky Derby GR-1, running seventh in the same field as Arazi. Dr. Devious ran fourth in the Breeders Cup Turf GR-1, and sixth in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe GR-1. Interestingly, he was sold to Japanese interests for stud duty.

I remember asking Charles Taylor, E.P. Taylor's son, if he realized that Northern Dancer was found in yet another Epsom Derby winner's pedigree through Red Rose in the family of Dr. Devious. He told me he hadn't noticed, probably because she was a bit farther back. Anyway, let's notice and celebrate this solid runner who danced every dance, with Rose of Suzuka and Suzuka Phoenix keeping the dance alive.

At Aqueduct on March 23, 2007, Smart and Fancy, a 4YO brown filly by Not for Love from Substitute Teacher, by Shelter Half won the $65,000 Break Through Stakes at 6 furlongs for fillies and mares, 4YO and up, non-winners of a graded stakes. The track was muddy. Substitute Teacher was a brown mare out of Windfields bred School Play, a bay mare, 1976, by Halo from Raise the Flag. Smart and Fancy had previously won stakes in the Maryland Millions program, including the Maryland Millions Oaks. Her earnings now stand at over $350,000. As a 4YO in 2007, she had placed in the Interborough H at Aqueduct and had ran third in the GR-11 Barbara Fritchie Breeders Cup H.

E.P. Taylor bred School Play, May 9, 1976 was a Windfields Maryland farm product, selling for $7,500 as a yearling in 1977. Her dam, Raise the Flag, a winner for Windfields, was a daughter of Raise a Native from Argentinian bred Corvette 11, by Black Out, a champion 3YO in Argentina. Raise the Flag's first foal, Coulisse, 1971, by Stage Door Johnny won 5 races including the Tattling Stakes H in Ontario and became a producer for Windfields.

A 1974 half sister to Coulisse, Native Mistress, by Nearctic placed 4 times in 11 starts without winning at 2YO and 3YO as Windfields tried a Nearctic/Raise a Native cross to try to capitalize on the fact that Raise a Native was a son of Native Dancer. The Nearctic/Native Dancer cross had, of course, produced Northern Dancer, Icecapade and other good runners.

The Taylor broodmare Raise the Flag was bred to Stage Door Johnny to get a full sibling to Coulisse at least twice more up to 1975. One of those matings produced Cabin John, a chestnut colt, 1973, who won 3 races as a 3YO. The other result, Pass by Night, a chestnut filly, 1975, was only an unraced 2YO when School Play, Smart and Fancy's granddam, was offered for sale by WIndfields.