The racehorse Nijinsky (1967-1992) (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page, both winners of the Queen's Plate, and a great-grandson of Nearco and Bull Lea. After being sent to stand at stud in the United States, he was registered there as Nijinsky II.
One of the greatest in thoroughbred horse-racing history, this imposing, muscular horse with anything but a gentle nature was bred at E. P. Taylor's fa...
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The racehorse Nijinsky (1967-1992) (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page, both winners of the Queen's Plate, and a great-grandson of Nearco and Bull Lea. After being sent to stand at stud in the United States, he was registered there as Nijinsky II.
One of the greatest in thoroughbred horse-racing history, this imposing, muscular horse with anything but a gentle nature was bred at E. P. Taylor's famous Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He was then bought at the Windfields Farm's annual yearling auction for $84,000 by American minerals industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. on whom the James Bond character Auric Goldfinger in the novel Goldfinger and subsequent film was based.
Shipped to Ireland, where he was trained by Vincent O'Brien in Ballydoyle, County Tipperary, Nijinsky became champion two-year-old of both England and Ireland in 1969. The next year, after winning the 2,000 Guineas Stakes, the Epsom Derby and the Irish...
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