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This is an interview with Joe Thomas, GM of Windfields MD during it's heyday. I'm guessing around 1984...great footage of Northern Dancer, the Minstrel, Smarten, and others, including Halo actually behaving himself..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOTkOStaB3Y

Fantastic! It would have to be 1984, since they are talking about Smarten being a first crop sire, his first foals raced in 1983. But they are also talking about a Northern Dancer - Ballade yearling, who would be Imperial Falcon(born in 1983) and a Northern Dancer - South Ocean filly, Oceana (born in 1983).

Very interesting that they talk about Halo's sale to Europe and return because of being a cribber. I read about that in a book, a month or so ago, and started a thread on here about what an impact that would have had, had he stayed in Europe.

Found another in the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NokClQuWRp8

North View Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyQOwvCCboA This is not North View in MD, this is a KY farm. Anyone know what this farm is now? *edit to add* there is a part in this video of a baby Capote with his dam, Too Bald.

Interview with Frank Whitely Jr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHZdPp0mTPc

Interview with Bob Fox interviews Kathy Boyanowski, Pat Schilling, Eugenio Columbo, Larry Ensor, John Schilling, Duncan Taylor, Eloise Marrs, J.T. Lundy, Bill Munn. Bob Fox at the First Matchmaker Sales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVwKMdokhVc

Flanders wrote:North View Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyQOwvCCboA This is not North View in MD, this is a KY farm. Anyone know what this farm is now? *edit to add* there is a part in this video of a baby Capote with his dam, Too Bald.

North Ridge. It's now Hill 'n' Dale.

luvthesales wrote:

Flanders wrote:North View Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyQOwvCCboA This is not North View in MD, this is a KY farm. Anyone know what this farm is now? *edit to add* there is a part in this video of a baby Capote with his dam, Too Bald.

North Ridge. It's now Hill 'n' Dale.

No wonder I couldn't find anything. I just went by what the video said. thanks!

North Ridge was the original home of Saratoga Six when he retired to stud. I still have calendars that they used to send me each year.

You can certainly tell that The Minstrel is by Northern Dancer... color aside, in body type they're practically twins.

(I am laughing about the "four white feet" discussion though )

I still can't get over Halo being on his best behavior,..he wasn't even wearing a muzzle..

Thanks Vandalay for sharing this.
The video seems to be from late 1983.
One of my most precious stallion brochures is "Windfields Farm's Classic Sirelines" of 1984. Amazing reading.
FWIW, Courtly Dee was Broodmare of the year that year beating both Ballade and Kittywake.

It was a bad year for Windfields with their young stallions as Gregorian, Master Willie, Caveat and Asset proved to be very disappointing, although Deputy Minister was also retired in 1984. Shame he wasn't on the footage!!

Vandalay wrote:I still can't get over Halo being on his best behavior,..he wasn't even wearing a muzzle..

I know- maybe he had just bred a mare and was tapped out. Not sure how old he was here- some horses get nastier with age. His temperament is notorious.

serenassong wrote:

Vandalay wrote:I still can't get over Halo being on his best behavior,..he wasn't even wearing a muzzle..

I know- maybe he had just bred a mare and was tapped out. Not sure how old he was here- some horses get nastier with age. His temperament is notorious.

14 or 15.
I just read he moved to Stone Farm in 1984, so it had to have been shortly after this video was taken. The same page said he was always a nervous horse but becoming a stallion made him nasty.

Flanders wrote:

serenassong wrote:

Vandalay wrote:I still can't get over Halo being on his best behavior,..he wasn't even wearing a muzzle..

I know- maybe he had just bred a mare and was tapped out. Not sure how old he was here- some horses get nastier with age. His temperament is notorious.

14 or 15.
I just read he moved to Stone Farm in 1984, so it had to have been shortly after this video was taken. The same page said he was always a nervous horse but becoming a stallion made him nasty.

Umm... how do you become a stallion?

I know for a fact the Halo horror stories started at Windfields...one of the stallion men, who referred to him as "that common son-of-a-b@#%" told me about when Halo had him pinned down in the corner of his stall until others came to his rescue...maybe the groom in the video was one that Halo didn't try anything with...

Della wrote:

Flanders wrote: 14 or 15.
I just read he moved to Stone Farm in 1984, so it had to have been shortly after this video was taken. The same page said he was always a nervous horse but becoming a stallion made him nasty.

Umm... how do you become a stallion?

I meant to say breeding mares.