Museum of Civilization ropes in Northern Dancer

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In a major coup, the Canadian Museum of Civilization has acquired 97 racing trophies, memorabilia and archival materials from E. P. Taylor’s Windfields Farm, where famed Canadian thoroughbred Northern Dancer was born and raised. The museum announced the acquisition Friday.No Canadian who witnessed it will ever forget it: Northern Dancer, an undersized bay colt from Canada, flashing across the finish line a neck ahead of favourite Hill Rise in the 1964 Kentucky Derby, then repeating the feat two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes. A nation watched transfixed as Northern Dancer fell just short of racing’s Triple Crown, finishing third in the Belmont Stakes. After winning the Queen’s Plate, he retired to stud on owner E.P. Taylor’s 600-hectare Windfields Farm near Oshawa, going on to become the greatest thoroughbred sire of the 20th century.

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