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Chad Brown
Record at Keeneland
Career Firsts
Starters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes
|
Year |
Horse |
Finish |
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2024 |
Sierra Leone |
Won |
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2024 |
Top Conor |
6th |
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2024 |
Good Money |
10th |
|
2023 |
Blazing Sevens |
3rd |
|
2022 |
Zandon |
Won |
|
2021 |
Highly Motivated |
2nd |
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2018 |
Good Magic |
Won |
|
2017 |
Practical Joke |
2nd |
|
2016 |
My Man Sam |
2nd |
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2014 |
Bobby’s Kitten |
12th |
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2013 |
Balance the Books |
6th |
At Keeneland
Won first race here during the 2008 Spring Meet.
50 stakes wins are good for fourth place on the list of Keeneland's leading trainers by stakes wins behind Todd Pletcher (72), Bill Mott (52) and D. Wayne Lukas (51).
First stakes win was the 2009 Woodford (G3) with Silver Timber, who also won the 2010 Shakertown (G3) and 2010 Woodford.
Eight wins in the First Lady (G1): Dayatthespa (2014), A Raving Beauty (GER) (2018), Uni (GB) (2019 and 2020), Blowout (GB) (2021), In Italian (GB) (2022) and Gina Romantica (2023 and 2024).
Seven wins in the Jenny Wiley (G1): Ball Dancing (2015), Sistercharlie (IRE) (2018), Rushing Fall (2019 and 2020), Regal Glory (2022), In Italian (GB) (2023), Beaute Cachee (FR) (2024).
Five wins in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1): Dayatthespa (2012), Rushing Fall (2018), Cambier Parc (2019), Shantisara (IRE) (2021) and Gina Romantica (2022).
Three wins in the Toyota Blue Grass (G1): Good Magic (G2 in 2018), Zandon (2022) and Sierra Leone (2024).
Three wins in the Madison (G1): Paulassilverlining (2017), Guarana (2020) and Goodnight Olive (2023).
Sent out Carl Spackler (IRE) to win the $1.25 Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) during the 2024 Fall Meet to capture the richest race in Keeneland history.
Rushing Fall also won the 2017 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) and 2018 Appalachian (G2) Presented by Japan Racing Association. She has five stakes wins at Keeneland; only Wise Dan with seven has more.
Career
Triple Crown wins (2): Preakness in 2017 with Cloud Computing and 2022 with Early Voting.
Breeders’ Cup wins (19): 2008 Juvenile Fillies Turf with Maram; 2012 Filly and Mare Turf with Zagora (FR); 2014 Juvenile Fillies Turf with Lady Eli, Filly and Mare Turf with Dayatthespa and Turf Sprint with Bobby’s Kitten; 2015 Filly and Mare Turf with Stephanie's Kitten and Filly and Mare Sprint with Wavell Avenue; 2016 Juvenile Fillies Turf with New Money Honey; 2018 Juvenile with Good Magic and Juvenile Fillies Turf with Rushing Fall; 2018 Filly and Mare Turf with Sistercharlie (IRE) and Juvenile Fillies Turf with Newspaperofrecord (IRE); 2019 Turf with Bricks and Mortar, Mile with Uni (GB) and Juvenile Turf with Structor; 2022 Filly and Mare Sprint with Goodnight Olive; 2023 Juvenile Fillies Turf with Hard to Justify and Filly and Mare Sprint with Goodnight Olive; and 2024 Classic with Sierra Leone.
Received Eclipse Awards in 2016-2019 as outstanding trainer in North America.
North American career earnings exceed $306 million with 2,753 wins through Dec. 16, 2024.
Recorded 2,000th win Aug. 7, 2021, when Digital Software won the 10th race at Saratoga.
Click here for his Equibase career record.
Background
Chad obtained a degree in animal husbandry from Cornell University in 2001. He received his start in racing by spending his college summers and the year following his graduation working for Racing Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey. “I grew up breaking and training Standardbreds,” he said, “but always wanted to be with the Thoroughbreds. I liked the way Shug won big races, and he had so many good-quality horses I was lucky enough that he took me in when I approached him. I started out hot-walking, then grooming and worked my way up to a foreman.”
Chad then spent five years working for another Hall of Famer, the late Bobby Frankel, splitting his time between Southern California and Saratoga. He went on to oversee Frankel’s divisions in Kentucky, Monmouth Park and Gulfstream Park. He went out on his own in November 2007.