For America

The year 2001 was not quite what Stanley Kubrick envisioned in his surreal odyssey into space. But that doesn’t mean the year was any less surreal, as evidenced by the tragedy of Sept. 11, a day that still resonates in the soul and gut of every American.

And on the 10th anniversary of that cataclysmic event, Thoroughbred racing also remembers—how the sport bonded as it had never bonded before, from America to Europe to the Middle East.