Bricks and Mortar's Breeders' Cup Finish Still Reads Like a Crowning

America's Best Racing has looked back on one of the closest Breeders' Cup finishes in memory, the afternoon that lifted Bricks and Mortar into the Horse of the Year picture. The retrospective treats the race as the moment a champion was crowned, with the outcome in doubt until the final strides. For readers here who follow a season by its champions rather than its calendar, that is the kind of finish that ends arguments in the paddock and at the sales. It is remembered, by the publication's own account, as anything but comfortable.

With reporting from America's Best Racing.