Nice Dancer
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| Nice Dancer | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Northern Dancer |
| Grandsire | Nearctic |
| Dam | Nice Princess |
| Damsire | Le Beau Prince |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1969 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | Dean Alfange |
| Owner | Tom Morton & Harlequin Ranches |
| Trainer | Jerry G. Lavigne |
| Record | 20: 10-2-3 |
| Earnings | $154,825 |
| Major wins | |
| Achievement Handicap (1972) Manitoba Derby (1972) Col. R. S. McLaughlin Handicap (1972) Canadian Maturity Stakes (1973) Dominion Day Handicap (1973)
Canadian Classic Race wins: | |
| Awards | |
| Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse (1972) | |
| Last updated on February 13, 2010 | |
Nice Dancer (1969–1997) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.
He was from the last Canadian-sired crop of Northern Dancer before the International champion sire was relocated to Windfields Farm American subsidiary in Maryland.
Owned by Tom Morton and Dick Bonnycastle's Harlequin Ranches, Nice Dancer was trained by Jerry Lavigne.
Racing career
In his three-year-old season, the colt was ridden primarily by future Canadian and U.S. Hall of Fame jockey, Sandy Hawley. In addition to important stakes races including the Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nice Dancer set a new Woodbine track record for a mile and three sixteenths in winning the inaugural running of the Col. R. S. McLaughlin Handicap. He won the third leg of the 1972 Canadian Triple Crown series, the Breeders' Stakes, a race run on turf at a distance of 1½ miles (12 furlongs). In the pre Sovereign Award era, Nice Dancer is historically viewed as the Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Male Horse of 1972.
At age four, Nice Dancer won the Dominion Day Handicap and the Canadian Maturity Stakes before being retired to stud duty.