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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 ...
Sierra Leone won the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga, defeating a deep field that included Fierceness and White Abarrio.
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 ...
The Whitney S. (G1) is loaded with Kentucky Derby alumni and the very best horses from the handicap division. The stacked Saratoga Saturday feature is a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the Breeders’ ...
Miguel Gutierrez is the head outrider for the New York Racing Association. He first came to the United States from Mexico in ...