Nijinsky II
| Nijinsky II | |
 Nijinsky II |
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| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Northern Dancer |
| Mother: | Flaming Page |
| Mother, father: | Bull Page |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1967 |
| Year of death: | 1992 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | EP Taylor |
| Owner: | Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. |
| Trainer: | M. Vincent O'Brien |
| Record: | 13 starts: 11 wins, 2 places |
| Prize amount: | $ 677,117 |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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Triple Crown of England 1970 Irish Derby 1970 King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes |
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| Champion of sire horses in England and Ireland 1986 | |
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Infobox last modified on: August 18, 2012. |
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Nijinsky II ( Thoroughbred horse ; * 21st February 1967 , † 15. April 1992 ) was one of the most famous racehorses in the history of horse racing and thoroughbred breeding. It was named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky . His father was a Northern Dancer and his mother a Flaming Page. It was during a snowstorm on the Wind Fields Farm of EP Taylor in Oshawa in the Canadian province of Ontario born and as a yearling from the active in platinum trading US industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. bought (1917-1971) for $ 84,000 .
Racing career
In Ireland he was trained by M. Vincent O'Brien and after winning the "Dewhurst Stakes" was considered the best two year old in England and Ireland. In 1970, at the age of three, Nijinsky won the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes , the Epsom Derby, the Irish Derby and for the first time defeated older horses at Ascot at the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes over a mile and a half. These victories made Nijinsky and his regular rider Lester Piggott the best horse-and-rider team in horse racing history. He then won the »St. Leger ”race and became the first horse to win the English Triple Crown in 35 years . There has been no other Triple Crown winner since then .
Next, in the same year, he took part in the famous French Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Longchamp in Paris , where he was sensationally beaten by the head's length by Sassafras under Yves Saint-Martin . In his last race, the Newmarket Champion Stakes , only 13 days after the defeat in Paris, which they refused to accept, he was beaten again. Now that he had obviously passed his zenith, he was successfully used for breeding in Kentucky on the Claiborne Farm.
In his brilliant racing career, tarnished only by his two second places in Longchamp and Newmarket, he surpassed the European record for winning a racehorse.
Breeding career
Nijinsky's virtues live on in his descendants, e.g. B. the Epsom Derby winners from 1982, 1986 and 1995: Golden Fleece, Shahrastani and Lammtarra. In contrast to his father, Lammtarra remained unbeaten, but only ran in 4 races, for which he won the " Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe " in addition to the "Epsom Derby" and the "King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes ".
Nijinsky's son Seattle Dancer was sold as a yearling for the long-established world record price of $ 13.2 million. Seattle Dancer was a stallion in Germany for a short time, where he died in spring 2007.
In terms of breeding, the Nijinsky son Niniski in particular represented a high class of sires. With Lomitas , who u. a. When he became the father of Silvano and Meridiana, he produced a successful stallion. Lomitas won three Group I races ( Grand Prix of Baden , Prize of Europe , Prize of the Berliner Bank).
Lagunas is also a grandson of Nijinsky, who is a dam sire a. a. Made a name at Peppercorn and Pepperstorm.
literature
- Rolf Palm : Wonderful stallion Nijinsky . Bertelsmann Verlag 1975