
06/10/2025
In the universe of great racing finishes, there are two beyond compare: Secretariat's Belmont and the 1944 Carter Handicap.
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Run on June 10 -- 81 years ago today -- the grainy black-and-white photo captures what has become a racing legend: Three Thoroughbreds, nose-to-nose-to-nose, hitting the finish line as one. It was the first, and is still the only, triple dead-heat finish in a stakes race in America.
The horses - Brownie, Bossuet and Wait a Bit - battled down the stretch at NY's Aqueduct Racetrack, charging through mud and fetlock-deep water.
They hit the line as one: Brownie on the rail, Bossuet in the middle, and Wait A Bit on the outside. In the eight decades since, time and technology have failed to separate them.