On December 23[SUP]rd[/SUP] I returned for a brief 1hr hunt to a portion of the Windfields farm site that I haven’t hit in almost 2 years. I noticed a couple of weeks ago that the fields had been turned and decided it was worth a shot.
The old vaccination bottle was an eyeball find and the only non-ferrous target of interest was a brass racehorse halter nameplate. I didn’t notice it at first, but it has a different horses name stamped on each side, obviously it was reused at some point. 
Brief History of Windfields Farm
Windfields Farm was a 1,500-acre thoroughbred horse-breeding farm founded by businessman E. P. Taylor in Oshawa, Ontario. The site was sold a few years ago to a homebuilder who is currently developing the property. It’s located about 3kms north of where I live and I’ve been detecting here on and off for 2 years now. The first stable and breeding operation of E. P. Taylor originated with a property near the city of Toronto known as Parkwood Stable when Colonel Sam McLaughlin of McLaughlin Automobile fame owned it. The property was purchased by Taylor and became known as The National Stud of Canada until he sold it and bought a new property in Oshawa he called Windfields Farm in honor of his first great champion. As population growth overtook the operation, it eventually expanded to include a second farm in Chesapeake City, Maryland. Windfields Farm in Ontario is the birthplace of racing great and champion sire Northern Dancer, winner of the 1964 Kentucky Derby, in stakes record time, the Preakness Stakes, and the Queen's Plate. Retired from racing after the 1964-racing season, he went on to an even more brilliant career at stud.
Led by Northern Dancer, in the 1960s Windfields Farm earned more prize money than any other stable in North American Thoroughbred racing. Windfields bred Northern Dancer's sons Nijinsky, Secreto, and The Minstrel, all of whom won England's most prestigious race, the Epsom Derby In 1968, a barn fire at the Maryland division resulted in the death of thirteen horses that had just arrived from the Canadian farm. Included in the horses that died were twelve mares, three of which were in foal to Northern Dancer and one to Nearctic. Northern Dancer spent most of his years at stud at the Maryland division, which also became home to other sires such as Dancer's Image and Assert. A national icon in Canada, Northern Dancer died in 1990 at Windfields' Maryland farm but was returned to his birthplace in Oshawa for burial. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association states that Northern Dancer is "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history," and the Daily Racing Form calls Northern Dancer the most influential sire of the 20th century. Northern Dancer is regarded as the 20th century's best sire of sires.
Thanks for looking,
Dave
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I wonder why they'd use the same plate over again I'm wondering if Street Ballet was related? Man that ground looks like it rough going!
I did know immediately that it was a halter name plate though. 
