Chad Brown

Yeah, well, this is, uh, this is one of those weird races that it's...

So international base trainers or Chad Brown have won each of the last 14 editions of this race.

Crazy.

It's just, it's been...

You know, so it's like when Chad's got a big time filly, obviously that makes sense, and then, uh, you know, otherwise it's been, um, international flavor.

So it's, it's pretty easy to, uh, like you said, I think it's easy to kinda be like, "I think it's going to be really hard to beat some of these lower priced horses," and I agree.

Um, you'd like to see, like, Kathleen Marissa float up a little bit, you know? Um, I don't know if that's gonna be the case, uh, because, like, there's your Chad Brown horse.

But I, you know, I, again, I wouldn't necessarily be throwing out any of these, especially, like, See The Fire or Jances, who both ran here in the United States at Woodbine last out, second and third respectfully in that EP Taylor.

And sometimes these European shippers, they run their best race first time in the US, and I thought she took a subtle step backwards last time, and even if she makes the lead here, I thought that others were just stronger finishers.

It's gonna be weird to see a big price of a Chad Brown, Flavien Prat horse in this race, but I think that's what we're gonna get with Deep Learning, who's probably gonna be one of the bigger prices in here, David.

And this horse does have some ability.

She's multiple graded stakes placed.

We haven't really seen her win any big ones, and she's really relatively lightly raced.

It's funny when you have the Chad Brown bar and you figure he'll have a couple horses in here, but this is the one that ends up in here for him.

I don't think she's quite as talented as these.

I do think this is gonna be a, a funny spot where she gets completely dismissed, and I feel like she could sit a really nice trip in here, kind of from the outside tucking in.

He's still competitive, but is he the same horse that he once was.

The number three, Asbury Park, up next for Chad Brown, off a second place finish at Saratoga.

He's tried stakes waters twice, a grade one time, which was two starts back, and he had trouble in there, obviously.

They regrouped after that event, but I don't know what your thoughts were.

Came back off the layoff last time and I guess you could say he probably should have won that race given that he was the favorite, but it was coming off the layoff and now he's second off.

Maybe we'll see better.

I think the interesting thing about him, Ashley, is just the fact that he's in this race because Chad Brown could have picked out another allowance race, but instead he's going to try the grade one with a horse that they've had high hopes for, but needs to step it up if he's going to be competitive with this field.

Absolutely.