Best biography nureyev horse
A son of the great stallion Northern Dancer, Nureyev has sired stakes winners, plus champions, and has a son in Theatrical who ranks as one of North.
“Ferociously concrete, ambitious, profligate, shocking and soaring Nureyev is easily the best biography of the year.”....
Nureyev (horse)
American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Nureyev (1977–2001) was an American-bred, French-trained Thoroughbredracehorse and champion sire.
As a racehorse, he was best known as the disqualified "winner" of the 2000 Guineas in 1980.
Background
Nureyev was a bay horse with a white blaze and white sock on his right hind leg bred in Kentucky by the Claiborne Farm.
“Ferociously concrete, ambitious, profligate, shocking and soaring Nureyev is easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The.He was sired by Northern Dancer out of the mare Special, making him a half brother of several winners including Fairy Bridge, the dam of Sadler's Wells. He was bought in 1978 at the Keeneland yearling sale by Stavros Niarchos for US$1.3 million ($6.1 million inflation adjusted),[1] at the time the second-highest paid price ever paid for a yearling—behind only Canadian Bound.[2] Niarchos named the colt in honor of the famous ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev.
Niarchos sent the colt to race in Europe where he was trained by François Boutin.
Racing career
In November 1979, Nureyev made h