Windfields
| Windfields | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1943 |
| Country | Canada |
| Colour | Bay |
| Breeder | E. P. Taylor |
| Owner | E. P. Taylor |
| Trainer | Bert Alexandra |
| Record | 75: 19-10-5 |
| Earnings | $83,380 |
| Major wins | |
| Victoria Stakes (1945) Gravesend Purse (1946) Breeders' Stakes (1946) | |
| Honours | |
| Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2002) | |
Windfields (1943–1971) was a Canadian
Windfields Farm.[1]
Out of the mare Nandi,[2] for whom the Nandi Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack is named, Windfields was sired by Bunty Lawless, who in 1951 was voted Canada's "Horse of the Half-Century."[3]
Trained by
Old Woodbine Racetrack by 3/5 of a second.[4]
The colt followed this win with another track record in the Rosedale Purse but then suffered a knee injury that kept him out of racing.
Ineligible for Canada's most prestigious race, the
Kings Plate for three-year-olds, in September 1946 the three-year-old Windfields defeated Plate winner Kingarvie by five lengths in the 1946 Breeders' Stakes. Scratched from the 1946 Belmont Stakes, Windfields won his third straight race, and second in a row at Aqueduct Racetrack, with a win in the mile and one-eighth Gravesend Purse.[5]
Although never a great racehorse, Windfields competed through age six, notably defeating the great Australian runner Shannon to win a Stakes race on January 25, 1948, at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.[6]
As a sire
Retired to
Canadian Champion 2-Year-Old Colt
and a Hall of Fame inductee.
Windfields died in 1971 at age twenty-eight and was buried in the equine cemetery at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario.[7]
Sire line tree
- Windfields[8]
Pedigree
| Sire Bunty Lawless |
Ladder | Ladkin | Fair Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lading | |||
| Panoply | Peter Pan | ||
| Inaugural | |||
| Mintwina | Mint Briar | Assagai | |
| Sweet Briar | |||
| Edwina | Celt | ||
| Lady Godiva | |||
| Dam Nandi |
Stimulus | Ultimus | Commando |
| Running Stream | |||
| Hurakan | Uncle | ||
| The Hoyden | |||
| Golden Feast | Golden Sun | Sundridge | |
| Golden Lassie | |||
| Mi-Careme | Desmond | ||
| Carim (family: 11-c) |
External links
References
- ^ "Windfields". Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. 2002-12-01. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Nandi, The Next Best Thing". Canadian Forces The Maple Leaf, Vol. 3, No. 89. 1945-07-07. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Windfields". Equibase Co. LLC. 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Nandi, The Next Best Thing". Canadian Forces The Maple Leaf, Vol. 3, No. 89. 1945-07-07. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Windfields Scores Again at Aqueduct". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. 1946-06-11. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Windfields Outruns Endeavor and Shannon". New York Times - Associated Press. 1948-01-25. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Grave Matters: Windfields Farm". Thoroughbred Heritage. 2002-01-01. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Windfields
- ^ American Classic Pedigree: Canadian Champ