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Northern Baby 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 of thirty-one.
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Wayne Chambers was a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing best known for his success in 1963 and 1964 when he became the principal jockey for Mongo, a colt owned by Marion du Pont Scott's Montpelier Stable. A good rider on dirt or turf, Chambers' wins with Mongo included the top class event at Hialeah Park, the Widener Handicap and the United Nations Handicap at Monmouth Park. However, his biggest win came in the then very important Washington D.C. International, the precursor to the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Mongo was voted 1963 American Champion Turf Horse.
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- ↑ "Neji". Racingmuseum.org. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- ↑ "Mongo Outruns Kelso in International". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 12, 1963. Retrieved 2012-12-19.
- ↑ "Mongo pedigree". equineline.com. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2013-01-02.