“He finished well,” Brown says, “and I think he’s ready to step back up into a big race like this.” He rebounded with a win in an entry level allowance race three months later. His lone venture into Grade I company ended in a forgettable seventh-place finish in the Belmont Derby in July.
A very consistent horse.”īrown also will send out Redistricting, another English-bred, this one by Kingman. Hopefully he’ll work out a better trip this time. It might have did him in in the end where he got caught by a good horse. “He had a challenging post,” Brown says regarding his last start. The English-bred colt won the first three races of his career before running second in the G3 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs in September. The Hollywood Derby is the first of two Grade I races scheduled for this weekend at Del Mar and Brown has brought the G1 Saratoga Derby winner, Program Trading, out west. They hail from the barns of Chad Brown, Charles Appleby and Mark Casse and they’re ‘invading’ Del Mar this weekend as part of the Turf Festival. They’ve traveled 3,000 miles in hopes of landing a coveted Grade I win.
CHAD BROWN LEADS EAST COAST INVASION FOR G1 HOLLYWOOD DERBY
