I watched Dance Smartly win the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown at Fort Erie when I was about 10 year old. She swept the Canadian Triple Crown over the males and won the Breeders Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs to complete a perfect 8-for-8 season.
Dance Smartly was 3-for-5 at age 2. One defeat coming at Fort Erie in the Ontario Debutante -- the other was a 3rd place finish to Meadow Star in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies.
The racing scene from the movie The Black Stallion was shot at Fort Erie:
This is Fort Erie from 1929:
