What) Windfields Farm in Ontario is the birthplace of racing great and champion sire Northern Dancer winner of the 1964 Kentucky Derby, in stakes record time, the Preakness Stakes, and the Queen's Plate. Retired from racing after the 1964 racing season, he went on to an even more brilliant career at stud. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association states that Northern Dancer is "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history," and he is also regarded as the 20th century's best sire of sires.
Led by
Northern Dancer, in the 1960s Windfields Farm earned more
prize money than any other stable in North American
Thoroughbred racing. Windfields bred Northern Dancer's sons
Nijinsky, Secreto, and The Minstrel, all of whom won England's
most prestigious race, the Epsom Derby. In the 1980s, Northern
Dancer's stud fee reached US$1 million, an amount four to five
times his rivals and a record amount that as of 2009 has not
been equaled. (1)
A national
icon in Canada, Northern Dancer died in 1990 at Windfields'
Maryland farm but was returned to his birthplace in Oshawa for
burial. In 1992, Phillip Blacker created a life size bronze
statue of Northern Dancer to stand outside the main entrance
to Woodbine Racetrack. (2)
Woodbine
Racetrack is a Canadian racetrack for Thoroughbred horse
races. It is the only horseracing track in North America which
stages, or is capable of staging, thoroughbred and
standardbred horseracing programs on the same day. The track
was opened in 1956 and since 1994 has been home to three
racecourses. (3)
Where) 555 Rexdale Boulevard
Why) Let's
just say that I never even wondered whether or not Pam would
enjoy this Buckys. 
After that, we were heading back to the car when Pam received a message that she had to take. So, I spent my time photographing ...
