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Many past Canadian
champions have performed at Fort Erie in the classic event.
Mr. E.P. Taylor's New Providence won the first running at
Fort Erie in 1959. That year, The Canadian Triple Crown was
introduced and New Providence won the inaugural series. Four
years later, Canebora was hailed a Triple Crown champion.
Canebora was also a product of Mr. Taylor's Windfields Farm.
Twenty-six years
passed before another Triple Crown champion emerged. Kinghaven
Farms' brilliant grey, With Approval, survived two photo-finishes
to win The Plate, then The Prince of Wales, before he cake-walked
to victory in The Breeders' Stakes.
Triple Crown winners
came in quick succession after With Approval ended the
drought. In 1990, another grey from Kinghaven Farms, Izvestia
was named the top three-year-old in the country winning
the three race series. The most popular winner of the Prince
of Wales waltzed to victory in 1991, super filly Dance
Smartly, 'kicked sand at the boys' as she became the first
and only lady to win the Canadian Triple Crown. In 1993,
the immensely talented Peteski peaked in all three races.
There was not another Triple Crown winner until Wando completed
the trick in 2003.
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