Vice Regent (April 29, 1967 – June 18, 1995) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse and Canada's leading sire for thirteen years. Owned and bred by E. P. Taylor , he was from Northern Dancer 's second crop and out of the mare Victoria Regina, a daughter of the French multiple stakes winner Menetrier whom E. P. Taylor purchased as a sire from François Dupré and imported to Canada.
5-516: Vice Regent was a full brother to Viceregal who earned Canadian Horse of the Year honours as a two-year-old in 1968. As such, on his debut one year later in 1969, much was expected from Vice Regent. Conditioned by future Hall of Fame trainer Gordon J. McCann , as a result of injuries and an accident, Vice Regent raced only five times before being forced into retirement. Standing at stud at his owner's Windfields Farm , his outstanding performance as
10-531: A sire earned him a 1989 induction in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame . During his career, Vice Regent produced four hundred foals, of which sixty were stakes winners. Vice Regent's notable offspring includes: Vice Regent is the damsire of: Vice Regent died on June 18, 1995, at the age of twenty-eight and was buried in the equine cemetery at Windfields Farm. Viceregal (horse) Viceregal (April 4, 1966 – April 29, 1984)
15-606: The colt suffered from soundness problems, he nonetheless won all eight of his starts and won Canadian Horse of the Year honors. Popular with racing fans because of his come-from-behind style, of his eight wins, seven were stakes races including the two most important races for juveniles in Canada, the Coronation Futurity Stakes and the Cup and Saucer Stakes . Targeted towards the 1969 Kentucky Derby , Viceregal
20-476: Was a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted Canadian Horse of the Year as a two-year-old. Bred and raced by E. P. Taylor and his Windfields Farm , he was a first-crop son of the great Northern Dancer and out of the Windfields-owned mare, Victoria Regina. Viceregal was conditioned for racing by Gordon J. "Pete" McCann . He was sent to race at age two in 1968, and although
25-589: Was sent to race in the United States but on his first start in a minor race at Lexington he pulled up injured after finishing third. It was discovered that he had broken a bone in a forefoot thereby ending his racing career. Retired to stud , Viceregal stood at Windfields Farm in Ontario as well as at breeding operations in Germany , France and Japan . In all, he sired thirty-five stakes race winners and
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