Northernette

Northernette
Sire	Northern Dancer
Grandsire	Nearctic
Dam	South Ocean
Damsire	New Providence
Sex	Mare
Foaled	March 4, 1974
Country	Canada
Colour	Bay
Breeder	E. P. Taylor
Owner	Syl Asadoorian & Sam Cosentino Peter M. Brant
Trainer	Jerry C. Meyer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr.
Record	33: 13-11-3
Earnings	US$404,914
Major wins
Mazarine Stakes (1976) Fury Stakes (1977) Selene Stakes (1977) Canadian Oaks (1977) Chrysanthemum Handicap (1977) Apple Blossom Handicap (1978) Top Flight Handicap (1978)
Awards
Canadian Champion 2-Year-Old Filly (1976) Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Filly (1977)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (1987)

Northernette (foaled March 4, 1974 - ?) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. A Canadian champion at both ages two and three, she was also a Grade I stakes winner in the United States.

Northernette was a bay mare who was bred in Ontario by E.P. Taylor, called the "chief architect of the modern evolution of Canadian racing and breeding" by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Taylor was the founder of the Canadian Jockey Club and helped run several other prominent racing institutions. He is best known as the owner and breeder of the great Northern Dancer, who was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and later became one of the most dominant sires in Thoroughbred history.

Taylor also bred the mare South Ocean, who won the Canadian Oaks in 1970 and later produced eight winners from twelve foals. When bred to Northern Dancer, South Ocean first produced Northernette, followed a few years later by champion and important sire Storm Bird. Several of South Ocean's daughters also became successful producers, and her name can be found in pedigrees around the world. In retrospect, the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame says that Northernette "was among the best Canadian-bred race fillies ever raised in this country."

Northernette was purchased at auction by the partnership of Syl Asadoorian and Sam Cosentino who raced her from a base at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. They entrusted her conditioning to Jerry Meyer.

In her two-year-old racing season, Northernette raced ten times, finishing first five times, second three times and third once. Second in her first start on May 9, 1976 at Woodbine, she won her following start on May 22. Over the summer, she recorded two wins in allowance company before finishing second in her first stakes race appearance in the Princess Elizabeth. She then won another allowance race before recording her most important victory of the year in the Mazarine Stakes. She finished the year with a fourth-place finish in the Demoiselle Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in the United States. She was voted the 1976 Sovereign Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly.

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