Lord North is out of Najoum (Giant's Causeway), who won twice as a 2-year-old, and is a half-brother to the winner Chronicles (Street Cry). Najoum is a half-sister to Bandini (Fusaichi Pegasus), winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes in the US and a sire, to Discourse (Street Cry), who took the Gr.3 Sweet Solera Stakes, and to My Mammy (Came Home), Listed-placed in the US, as well as to eight other winners.

The second dam Divine Dixie (Dixieland Band) was Listed-placed. Besides Bandini and Discourse she produced My Mammy, dam of Our For A Spin, winner of the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes, and of the stakes winners Sweet Victory and Ferdinanda. Discourse is the dam of the Group 3 winner Blown By Wind and of the Listed winners Discursus and Hadith, and another daughter, Ashley Hall (Maria's Mon), is the dam of Loch Lein, winner of the Listed Prix Amandine and twice Group 3-placed, and of Pedestal, third in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes.

The third dam Hail Atlantis (Seattle Slew) won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks.

Divine Dixie is a half-sister to the stakes winner and sire Stormy Atlantic (Storm Cat), to the Listed winner and sire Mr Katowice (Katowice), to the winner Helstra (Nureyev) and to the unraced Atlantic Blue (Nureyev). Helstra is the dam of Stern Option, winner of the Listed Prix Hampton and twice Group 3-placed, the grandam of Decorated Invader, winner of the Grade 1 Summer Stakes, and the third dam of Fire At Will, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Atlantic Blue is the dam of Atlando, a Grade 2 winner in the US, and of Incanto Dream, winner of the Gr.2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil, the grandam of Mambia, winner of the Gr.3 Prix du Calvados, and of Phoceene, winner of the Listed Prix Rose de Mai and Group 3-placed, and the third dam of Olendon, a Listed winner who was placed in the Gr.1 Prix Saint-Alary.

Najoum has a 2-year-old filly by Too Darn Hot.