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On Saturday, Brown finally crossed one of those milestone wins off the list, scoring his first Whitney win as Sierra Leone and jockey Flavien Prat swept down the stretch to capture the Grade 1, $1 ...
Just how trainer Chad Brown drew it up. With Sierra Leone, a talented but pace-dependent 4-year-old, Brown knew he needed to inject some speed into Saturday’s G ...
Peter Brant, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg and Brook Smith’s Sierra Leone, the Champion ...
Chad Brown has won a lot of races at the Saratoga Race Course. The Mechanicville native has won seven trainer titles at his hometown track. But entering the summer meet, Brown had yet to win ...
Mirroring his winning performance in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) last fall, Sierra Leone rallied from behind a fast pace ...
Top challenges should come from Deterministic (9-2), who won the Manhattan Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on June 8 for trainer ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY–The cell phone rang, and, on the other end, Mike Repole was rolling. “I've won the Alabama twice, I've won the Jim Dandy three times … I have to pinch myself,” Repole, his ...
Garden City’s Junior Alvarado continued his amazing year with another big stakes win aboard Sovereignty. Saturday’s victory in the Jim Dandy, added to the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, keeps the ...
Trainer Chad Brown is deploying some interesting tactics in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga. Brown entered the pair of Sierra Leone, l ...
Sovereignty’s victory over an ultra-game Baeza in the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) set up the tantalizing possibility of another ...
The field of older horses for the Whitney also includes 2024 Breeders’ Cup Classic champion Sierra Leone and 2025 Pegasus ...
On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” I am joined by Gazette horse racing writer Mike MacAdam for his "At ...