Windfields

Windfields
Sire	Bunty Lawless
Grandsire	Ladder
Dam	Nandi
Damsire	Stimulus
Sex	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) Rosedale Purse (1945) Gravesend Purse (1946) Silver Lake Purse (1946) Breeders' Stakes (1946) Distraction Purse (1946) Audacious Handicap (1947)
Honours
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (2002)

Windfields (1943–1971) was a Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who was the first stakes race winner bred by E. P. Taylor and for whom he named his world-famous Windfields Farm.

Out of the mare Nandi, [1] 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."

Trained by Bert Alexandra, as a two-year-old in 1945 Windfields won his first start by six lengths, then won the five furlong Victoria Stakes in a time of 0:59.00, breaking Faireno's track record at Old Woodbine Racetrack by 3/5 of a second. [2] 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. 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. [3]

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