Northern Baby

Northern Baby
Northern Baby, oil on canvas painted by Bob Demuyser (1920–2003)
Sire	Northern Dancer
Grandsire	Nearctic
Dam	Two Rings
Damsire	Round Table
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1 April 1976[1]
Country	Canada
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Kinghaven Farm
Owner	Anne-Marie d'Estainville
Trainer	François Boutin
Record	17:5-2-5
Major wins
Prix de la Côte Normande (1979) Champion Stakes (1979) Prix Dollar (1980)
Awards
Timeform rating 109 (1978), 127 (1979), 119 (1980)

Northern Baby (1 April 1976 – 21 February 2007) was a Canadian-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from October 1978 until September 1980 he won five of his seventeen races. After showing promising form as a two-year-old he emerged as a top-class middle-distance performer in 1979, winning the Prix de la Côte Normande in France but showing his best form in England, where he finished third in both The Derby and the Eclipse Stakes before recording his most important victory in the Champion Stakes. He remained in training as a four-year-old with mixed success, running several moderate races but defeating the outstanding filly Three Troikas in the Prix Dollar. He was retired to stud and became a very successful sire of steeplechasers. He died in 2007 at the advanced age (for a Thoroughbred) of thirty-one.