Windfields Farm in Chesapeake City was Maryland's leading stud farm for Thoroughbred horses before it closed in 1988.
Windfield Farms, Maryland, owned by E. P. Taylor, who bought farmland in 1964 on the recommendation of Allaire du Pont. He initially used the farm to ride the horse to get closer to American racing. This changed when his champion, North Dancer, retired to study. Northern Dancer has been raised in the original Windfields Farm in Ontario, and originally stood there as well. However, his first harvest was so successful that North Dancer was moved to Maryland in 1969 where he had more access to high-quality horses. Northern Dancer became one of the most successful males of all time.
A series of famous retired horse to roam in Windfields, including El Gran Senor, and Assert. Shareef Dancer, Devil's Bag and Secreto grew up on a farm. The most lucrative horse ranch, the Northern Dancer, retired from the stud in the spring of 1987, and the owner decided that it was no longer profitable to run a stud farm in Maryland, where the cost was very high. The remaining horses are sold to farms in other states.
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Northern Dancer's Legacy
The most influential person in the 20th century
Windfields Farm in Ontario is the birthplace of great racing and the Sire Northern Dancer champion, winner of the Kentucky Derby 1964, in record time betting, Preakness Stakes, and Queen's Plate. Northern Dancer was retired after the 1964 racing season and started his career in stud. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association states that Northern Dancer is "one of the most influential stud in Thoroughbred history," and the Daily Racing Form calls the North Dancer the most influential person in the 20th century. Northern Dancer is also considered the best male of the 20th century.
Led by Northern Dancer, in the 1960s, Windfields Farm earned more prize money than any other in American Thoroughbred North American racing. Windfields raises children Nijinsky's Northern Dancers, Secreto, and The Minstrel, who all won the most prestigious race in England, The Derby.
In 1968 a warehouse fire in the Maryland division resulted in the death of thirteen horses that had just arrived from the Canadian farm. Included in the dead horses are twelve horses, three of which are under the horse for the Northern Dancers and one to the Nearctic.
Northern Dancer spends most of his time in studs in the Maryland division which is also home to other men such as Dancer Image and Assert. A national icon in Canada, the Northern Dancer died in 1990 in the Maryland Windfields field but was returned to his birthplace in Oshawa for burial.
$ 1 million fee for stud and world record price
Between 1974 and 1988, twelve times the children of North Dancer led July Keeneland's Fall of Seasonal Sales at an average price. At the 1983 horse auction Sale Keeneland, one of Windfields' colts, will eventually be named Snaafi Dancer, becoming the first $ 10 million a year. In 1984, his twelve children were sold at an unchallenged record price of $ 3,446,666.
In the 1980s, Northern Dancer stud costs amounted to US $ 1 million, some four to five times that of its rivals and a record number that in 2009 has not been matched.
The horse owned by Windfields Farm has won eleven Queen's Plate competitions, as well as Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. Their horses had won the Triple Crown Canadian Racing Thoroughbred twice, in 1959 and 1963. Windfields Farm and/or E. P. Taylor raised the world record of 48 champions and 360 winning bets.
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