Oshawa hoping to swing ‘Doors Open’ to horse racing legend’s grave May 3 [Video]

Ten years separated the opening to the public of the cemetery dedicated to Canada’s greatest ever racehorse – and seven other horses owned by racing legend and businessman EP Taylor – and the City of Oshawa wants to make sure that gap doesn’t happen again.

Windfield Farms was the home of one of Canada’s most successful horse racing breeding operations and the birthplace of Northern Dancer, who won the 1964 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Queen’s Plate and went on to be the most successful sire of the 20th century.

But after the closing of the farm and the disposal of most of the lands to Durham College/Ontario Tech University in 2009, the core group of preserved buildings and the cemetery containing the grave of Northern Dancer and seven others – including fellow Queen’s Plate Winners New Providence (1959) and Victoria Park (1960) – fell into disarray through neglect.

That …