Windfields Farm is a 1,500 acre (6 km²) thoroughbred horse breeding farm in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1937, it was originally a property near the city of Toronto known as Parkwood Stables when it was owned by Colonel Sam McLaughlin of McLaughlin Automobile fame. It was purchased by businessman E. P. Taylor and became known as The National Stud of Canada until he renamed it Windfields Farm. As population growth overtook the operation, it eventually moved to Oshawa and later would expand to include a second farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland. Oshawa (2004 population 150,000, metropolitan population 296,298) is a city on Lake Ontario located 56 kilometres east of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|center|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada... Colonel Robert Samuel McLaughlin (September 8, 1871 - January 6, 1972) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and founder, in 1907, of the McLaughlin Motor Car Co. ... The McLaughlin automobile company began life as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, a blacksmith shop in Enniskillen, Ontario, Canada. ... Edward Plunket Taylor, born January 29, 1901 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - died May 14, 1989 in Lyford Cay, New Providence, Bahamas, was a business tycoon and famous breeder of thoroughbred race horses. ... Chesapeake City is a town located in Cecil County, Maryland. ...

The farm is the birthplace of such racing greats as Northern Dancer, Nijinsky II and The Minstrel and for the entire decade of the 1960's, the farm was the number one breeding operation in North America. In the 1983 Keeneland, Kentucky horse auction, one of Windfields' colts became the first $10 million yearling. Northern Dancer was a Canadian-bred thoroughbred racehorse, a bay colt born May 27, 1961, by Nearctic-Natalma, by Native Dancer. ... The racehorse Nijinsky II (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page and a grandson of Nearco. ... The Minstrel, (1974-1990), was a champion thoroughbred racehorse. ... There is also a town in Kentucky, now defunct, with the same name, unrelated to this article; for the town, see Keeneland, Kentucky. ...

Horses owned by Windfields Farm have won 11 Queen's Plate races, as well as the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes. The Queens Plate is North Americas oldest thoroughbred horse race, run at a distance of 1 1/4 miles for 3-year-old thoroughbed horses, foaled in Canada, run annually in July at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke (Toronto), Ontario. ... The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. ... The Preakness Stakes is a classic 1 3/16 mile (1. ...

Windfields Estate was the home of E.P. Taylor and was situated at 2489 Bayview Avenue in North York Ontario. Presently run as the Norman Jeweson Directors School. The 25 acre estate has been preserved as a heritage site.