A year after Charlie Appleby ended Chad Brown’s five-match winning streak at Diana Stakes (G1T), two of the best coaches in the world will go head-to-head again in the July 16 game for the Champions League. track and field players at Racecourse Saratoga.
Only this time, Brown has so many numbers on his side.
In 2021, both Europe-based Appleby and Brown sent two starters at 1/8 of a mile Diana, and it was Appleby who dominated the race by putting 1-2 finishers. Althiqa and Summer romance .
In Saturday’s $500,000 stake renewal, Appleby will be 4-1 more as Brown will account for 66.6% of the six fillers and mares in the field.
“It’s the race we’ve been focused on for years since I opened my own stable. Again, we have racehorses,” Brown said.
Featured in Brown’s quartet is the undefeated Peter Brant Bleecker Street who was a perfect 7-on-1 after rallying the last word in the seven-man field to win the New York Stakes (G1T) June 10 at 1 1/4 mile in the final start hers.
“She has grown beyond anyone’s expectations, including mine. Every time I ask her to do something, she steps up and does it. Every race is a challenge. new to her, and regardless of competition, distance or Brown talking about her turf at various races, she continues to meet the challenges,” Brown said of Quality Sugar was bred by Branch Equine and purchased for $400,000 at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s New York Sale of Selected Yearlings.
While Bleecker Street will start at the Spa for the first time, cagemates Technical analysis could be considered a horse for the course with a 2v2 record at Spa after winning the Lake Placid Stakes (G2T) and Lake George Stakes (G3T) last year at the Spa as a 3-year-old for Klaravich Stables . .
Daughter of King won a Gallorette Share May 21 (G3T) in Racecourse Pimlico in her last start.
Brant’s Rougir was a 3-5 favorite in New York but lacked a strong late kick and finished fifth after winning Beaugay Stakes (G3) for Brown on her 2022 debut. Group 1 winner in France last year, daughter of Territory won 5 out of 16 starts.
Brant also owns In Italy , who placed third in Longines Just A Game Stakes (G1T). Speed Dubai The 4-year-old girl will have her first start of more than 1/16 mile and the numbers will be included in the Technical Analysis at the front of the car in the early stages. Technical analysis will break the railway, while In Italian there are outside posts in the small sector.
“I had to give both horses a chance to run. In Italian it sounds like a horse that is faster than Technical Analysis,” Brown said. “We’ll see how it shakes when they break.”
Hope of Appleby, half-blood of Godolphin Creative flair is returning to the United States after finishing fourth in the Jockey Club Oaks Invitational Stakes and third in the Saratoga Oaks Invitational Stakes (G3T) a year ago.
Dubawi’s (IRE) 4-year-old daughter won the Balanchine presented by Longines Evidenza in Meydan in her solitary 2022 start.
Hoping to break the Brown vs. Appleby is by Bal Mar Equine Dalika one Pastorius 6-year-old who finished second in the Old Forester Mint Julep Stakes (G3T) for coach Al Stall Jr.
The 3rd grade winner has won 7 of her 26 starts, but is unbeaten in three starts on the field in Saratoga.
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Item: Diana S. (G1T)
Racecourse SaratogaSaturday, July 16, 2022, Race 8
- IT class
- 1 1/8 minutes
- Turf
- 500,000 dollars
- 4 yo & up Fillies and Mares
- 5:03 pm (local)
