Then Northern Dancer uncorked a jaw-dropping two-minute flat run breaking the 89-year-old track record and become the first Canadian-born and -bred horse to win the world’s most famous race. Two years later, in the lead-up to the Kentucky Derby the press poked fun at the colt’s pint-size (15.1 hands) stature. In 1962, he was offered for $25,000 at his yearling sale. Small and stocky, the bonny bay colt was built more like an old-style Quarter Horse than a sleek Thoroughbred. Northern Dancer and jockey Willie Shoemaker in the Gulfstream Park winner's circle after winning the Florida Derby.
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