IT’S a great wall. Memories, winners, heroes, moments - all captured, first in black and white and then in colour. Every fan, every horseman has stopped at the wall on the second floor of Belmont Park, between the grandstand and clubhouse and thought back to their lives, their careers.

The win composites line the wall, monuments and mementos of days gone by; there’s Secretariat in iconic isolation, there’s Woody Stephens’ five in a row, there’s Birdstone nabbing Smarty Jones, there’s the filly Rags To Riches, there’s American Pharoah’s release and there’s a space for the next winner, always a space, an empty lot, for the next winner.