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Toronto friends living the Queen’s Plate dream
As 10-year-old boys, Bob Hunter and Neal Mednick used to hop the fence at the old Windfields Farm near York Mills Road and Bayview Avenue in North York just to get a look at the blue-blooded thoroughbreds owned by E.P. Taylor.
It was around that time Taylor's great Canadian colt Northern Dancer won the 1964 Kentucky Derby and then returned to…