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True North I

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Sire
  
Only One

Dam
  
North Riding

Sex
  
Gelding

Grandsire
  
Lucullite

Damsire
  
High Time

Foaled
  
1940

True North (foaled 1940) was a successful American Thoroughbred racehorse for which the True North Handicap at Belmont Park is named.

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Background

True North was bred and raced by businessman W. Deering Howe, a grandson of Charles Deering, Chairman of the Board of Directors and a founding major shareholder in International Harvester. True North was trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Preston M. Burch.

Racing career

True North's wins included the Fall Highweight Handicap in 1945 and the Interborough Handicap in 1946.

References

True North I Wikipedia