Windfields
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, for whom the Nandi Stakes at ...
, dam = Countess Angela
, damsire = Bull Page
, sex =
Stallion
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Summer Stakes
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racehorse
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Windfields
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, for whom the Nandi Stakes at ...
were both
Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame
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inductees. Out of the mare Countess Angela, his damsire was Bull Page, the 1951
Canadian Horse of the Year
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and the leading sire in Canada in 1958. Titled Hero was purchased for $15,000 in 1964 by Peter K. Marshall at the annual
Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm was a six square kilometre (1,500 acre) Thoroughbred horse breeding farm that was founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
Origin
The first stable and breeding operation of E. P. Taylor originated w ...
Canadian Horse of the Year
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Part of the Sovereign Awards program since 1975, ...
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. At age two, Titled Hero won eight of his twelve starts. In the two most important stakes races for juveniles in Canada, he ran second on the turf in the 1965 Cup and Saucer Stakes and won the Coronation Futurity Stakes on dirt.
As a three-year-old in 1966, Titled Hero won the Friar Rock Stakes, the Plate Trial Stakes, and then the most important race of his career and Canada's most prestigious race, the Queen's Plate Titled Hero went on to win the Breeders' Stakes on turf
Titled Hero was Animal euthanasia, euthanized following a serious injury in 1967.