$374 Winner Sets New Payout Record At Remington Park

Coyote Den showed 99-1 odds on the toteboard because that's as high as it goes, but true odds were 186-1 in Race 2 Thursday night and that led to an all-time record $374 payoff on a $2 win ticket at Remington Park.

The previous high payoff for a horse winning here was $284.60 by Van Nistelrooy Gal on Oct. 21, 2010 on a $2 ticket.

The 3-year-old gelded son of Den's Legacy, out of the Woodman mare Tensas Woodlady, was still sitting eighth after a half-mile of the 7-1/2 furlong race on the turf. Jockey Alfredo Triana, Jr., then kicked his mount into fourth gear and he passed seven horses down the stretch to get up to a win by three-quarters of a length over heavy 2-5 favorite Our Silver Temple. Coyote Den paid $374 to win, $57 to place and $18.20 to show.

It wasn't even close to the all-time North American $2 win payoff, but that payout came under unusual circumstances. That was on Dec. 8, 1989, when Power to Geaux was racing at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. Simulcast wagering had just begun at several tracks around the country but in those days the pools were not comingled with the originating track. A $2 wager made on Power to Geaux to win was made at Ak-Sar-Ben racetrack in Omaha, Neb., as part of that track's simulcasting. There was only one $2 win ticket sold on Power to Geaux in the Ak-Sar-Ben simulcasting and one lucky patron was paid $2,922 to win on the $2 win ticket. If you don't count simulcasting, the largest payout of a $2 win ticket before that was $1,885.50 on Wishing Ring at Latonia in Kentucky on June 17, 1912.

The Daily Racing Form reported that there were four winning tickets on Wishing Ring that day, including a woman who backed the horse because of the filly's “well-sounding name.” Only $22 was wagered on Wishing Ring to win that day. The Daily Racing Form said it was noteworthy that the filly's $644.50 to place was also a record at that time.

The two highest win payoffs in the Breeders' Cup races and the Kentucky Derby still are Arcangues at $269.20 in 1993 to win and Doneraile at $184.90 respectively, in 1913.

On Thursday night at Remington Park, Coyote Den added his name to the historical list of longshots and keyed a couple of nice exotic payoffs in his race. The top four in Coyote Den's race were him on top, Our Silver Temple second, High Noon Typhoon (3-1) third, another 2-1/4 lengths back, and Rogue Boy (14-1) in fourth. The $2 exacta payoff with the 2-5 favorite was $1,268.60 to each winning ticket from a pool of $44,798. The 50-cent trifecta paid out $2,175.25 from a pool of $28,636, and the 10-cent superfecta (3-6-8-1) returned $1,174.36 from a pool of $20,097.

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Chad Brown Closing In On 100 Graded Stakes Wins At Belmont Park

The plethora of win pictures that fill up the wall of trainer Chad Brown's office serve as reminders of the memorable champions he's conditioned. The mementos also serve notice that the mark of success encompass both quality and quantity.

Over the past decade, the 42-year-old has achieved success at the highest level in racing, especially in the highly competitive New York circuit. Brown, who is approaching his 2,000th career win [1,967 as of June 1], will soon reach another milestone, as the eight-time leading trainer at Belmont Park is poised to capture his 100th graded stakes victory at the historic racetrack.

Brown, who currently boasts 97 graded stakes wins at Belmont Park according to records kept by Equibase, will look to add to his totals during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival which kicks off on Thursday, June 3 and will include 17 stakes races in total with eight Grade 1 races to be contested on Belmont Stakes Day on Saturday, June 5. The four-time Eclipse Award-winning conditioner has 16 horses entered across seven graded stakes at the star-studded festival.

Brown, a graduate of Cornell University, took out his trainer's license in 2007 and saddled Dual Jewels to victory on November 23 of that year at Churchill Downs for a $5,000 tag. The following October, he earned his first graded stakes triumph when Maram captured the Grade 3 Miss Grillo [now a Grade 2] at Belmont Park and subsequently provided Brown with his first Breeders' Cup winner, taking the inaugural Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita.

The old adage of success building on success was embodied by Brown, who followed by saddling Grade 1-winners such as Stacelita, who already was a multiple Group 1-winner in her native France before joining Brown's barn. The daughter of Monsun won the Beverly D. at Arlington Park and the Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park en route to honors as 2011 Champion Turf Mare.

Flash forward 10 years and Brown has already campaigned 14 Breeders' Cup winners and 11 Eclipse champions. Among these stellar athletes are Peter Brant's Sistercharlie, who captured the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf in 2018 on the road to capturing Champion Turf Female honors, as well as Sheep Pond Partners' 2017 Champion Turf Female Lady Eli, whose 10 lifetime wins include the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational and Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont Park.

“It's amazing how many great horses that have come through my barn in such a short amount of time,” Brown said.

Brown is approaching the century mark of graded stakes wins at Belmont Park in record time. He trails only Hall of Famers Shug McGaughey and Todd Pletcher, who boast a respective 107 and 116 graded stakes wins, according to Equibase records, at a track that first opened its doors in 1905. It took McGaughey three decades to reach his hundredth graded stakes victory at Belmont, while Pletcher, newly named to the Hall of Fame, accomplished the feat in 18 years.

So how does a trainer notch so many top-level wins at one of America's most prestigious racetracks?

“Managing the horses, taking care of them, and trying to get the most out of their careers from start to finish is something that I take a lot of pride in,” Brown said. “It takes patience, care and good management. We pride ourselves in doing right by the horses and identifying small problems early on and fixing them once we see them. I have a loyal group of owners that really buy into the program and follow it with us.”

Michael Dubb, whose turf sprinter Silver Timber became Brown's first multiple graded stakes winner, is among those loyal owners. Via ownership groups, Dubb and Brown campaigned 2019 Champion Turf Mare Uni, multiple Grade 1-winner A Raving Beauty, 2015 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint victress Wavell Avenue, and New York-bred graded stakes winner Fourstar Crook, who won the Grade 1 Flower Bowl in 2018.

“I knew from the moment I met him he was destined for stardom,” Dubb said. “I was one of his first owners. We started out buying inexpensive horses and claiming horses like Silver Timber, who we got for only $25,000. He has a very logical and businesslike approach to the game. I expect that he'll win hundreds more graded stakes races.”

Bob Edwards of e Five Racing Thoroughbreds, who owned Brown-trained Breeders' Cup winners New Money Honey [2016 Juvenile Fillies Turf], Good Magic [2017 Juvenile] and Rushing Fall [2017 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf], said he considers the conditioner a close friend as well a business partner.

“During the Saratoga meet, if you ever see me out on the town, chances are I am with Chad,” Edwards said. “We've had such phenomenal success with Chad over the past few years. He takes care of my horses like they're his own. A lot of times I'll call him up and at first, we won't even talk about racing. That's the level our relationship is on.”

Edwards credits Brown with managing the career of Rushing Fall, who won six Grade 1 races reaching such caliber at age two, three, four and five. One of the only other American horses to accomplish at least one Grade 1 victory for four straight years was fellow Brown alumni Lady Eli.

Rushing Fall, a champion daughter of More Than Ready, won at the top level over four different turf courses, including Belmont Park, where she captured the Grade 1 Longines Just a Game in 2019. She completed her career last November when a close second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, retiring with a remarkable 15-11-3-0 career and $2,893,000 in lifetime earnings.

“He did such a phenomenal job with managing her career, even during the pandemic,” Edwards said. “Chad will often position his top horses for a comeback at Keeneland in the spring, and when they cancelled their spring meet last year due to COVID, he was able to regroup and give her another great year. That's the great thing about him, he's able to keep his good horses sound and keep them performing at a high level for several years at a time.”

Brown's ability to keep horses sound has been identified by multiple others in his inner circle, including bloodstock agent Mike Ryan, who scouted Rushing Fall as a yearling at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale. Ryan bought the future champion for $320,000 from the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment.

“It's not a one season thing for him, he thinks long term,” Ryan said. “He is brilliant at managing a horse's career, and what he did with Rushing Fall is a prime example of that. He's very much into the big picture. He manages horses very well and he doesn't over race them. He's extremely successful in mapping out careers and planning races for horses. I remember the first time I met Chad, he had around 35 horses and about twenty of them of them were by [2002 Wood Memorial winner] Buddha, who wasn't much of a sire. Today, he has among the best-bred stock in the world.”

Brown credits much of his success to his mentor, the late Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel.

“I was extremely fortunate to land in a position under him at the height of his career and at the portion of his career where he was the wisest,” Brown said. “Then to be able to apply that to my stable and share with my team what I've learned has been extremely rewarding.”

Ryan expanded on Brown's appreciation for Frankel.

“He was very lucky to work for Bobby Frankel, one of the greatest trainers in the last 50 years. He often says, 'What would Bobby do?' and one thing Bobby was good at was calling audibles,” Ryan said. “You have to be flexible in racing, when training, managing and entering horses. There are so many variables that go into it.

“He puts a lot of thought into everything,” added Ryan. “He doesn't make rush decisions. He always thinks things through clearly and deliberately. His memory blows my mind.”

Brown shares praise with his assistants, foremen, exercise riders, grooms and hotwalkers as a highly instrumental aspect of his success, and is often heard crediting his team in post-race interviews.

“I'm extremely happy to share this with my team, they do all the heavy lifting,” Brown said. “It's been extremely rewarding to watch over the last almost 15 years, to see all of the teamwork, and great horses come through the barn, and all the sacrifices that people have made. I'm not having this conversation right now if it's not for them.”

Added Ryan: “His staff respects him. When the stable wins, everybody wins. The staff benefits from his generosity. I've noticed his low turnover. He has had the same top riders, foremen and assistants for many years. [Assistant trainer] Baldo [Hernandez] has been with him since the start. It just says a lot about the organization. We've been working together eight to nine years at sales now and he respects what I bring to the table and we've learned a lot from each other about management of racehorses. He is successful because he works very hard.”

Brown said giving a horse the time off that it needs is an integral ingredient to success which is confirmed by Ian Brennan, of Stonestreet Training and Rehabilitation Center in Ocala, Florida, who oversees many of the conditioner's stock during their downtime.

“You have to give a lot of credit to him because the horses look really well when they come to me,” Brennan said. “Usually, when they come to me, it's for a freshening for the following season. Especially with the fillies, you can only go so long with them and they come to a point where they need a break. He sends them back in great condition and very, very sound. It makes it easier for us as well.”

Brennan identified Bricks and Mortar as a horse who benefitted from Brown's patience. After a close third in the Grade 3 Hill Prince in October 2017 at Belmont Park, the son of Giant's Causeway was out of racing action for 14 months.

On his return, Bricks and Mortar won seven consecutive starts to complete his career, five of which were Grade 1 scores in 2019 en route to Eclipse Award-honors as Champion Turf Male and Horse of the Year.

“There aren't a lot of trainers who would have given a horse like that as much time. His owners are good as well. They understand the game. They let Chad handle it and give a horse time if it needs time,” Brennan said. “In the case of Bricks and Mortar, he was a horse that needed a lot of time. He was immature physically and mentally and he had an issue with a hock, a bone bruise. Chad was very, very patient with that horse. There were a couple of times I started him back and I wasn't happy with how he was moving. Chad told me to put the horse first and give him as much time as he needed. He never puts pressure to get them back.”

Rushing Fall also would spend time with Brennan during the winter months.

“Every year she got better and better but a lot of that is because Chad gave her a break after November, and she'd come back to me,” Brennan said. “He did a super job with her, and it was because he looked after her well and gave her the time she needed. She enjoyed the break, and she really enjoyed the farm. She freshened up really well. She just loved to get the break herself.”

The racing industry can humble a person no matter what pinnacle they may reach. Ryan said he credits Brown for always being receptive to learning new things about the game.

“The one thing that Chad and I do share is that we are always of the belief that we can be better,” Ryan said. “We work hard to do better and be better at what we do. We're working hard all the time and never stop looking for improvement. It's a constant learning curve. There's always room to be better. We always try to be open minded. You never know it all. The horse business is so challenging and so intriguing.”

At the end of 2020, champion distaffers Sistercharlie, Uni and Rushing Fall closed the curtain on their illustrious racing careers. But despite losing key members of his starting lineup, Brown's stable is showing no signs of slowing down, having netted over $5 million in earnings so far this year, including victories with Raging Bull in the Grade 1 Makers' Mark Mile at Keeneland and Domestic Spending in the Grade 1 Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic at Churchill Downs.

“He's the complete trainer. He can train any kind of horse,” Ryan said. “It's only a matter of time before he wins the Kentucky Derby. I know the Derby and the Travers are very high on his bucket list. What he's accomplished, it's just amazing for as young as he is.”

Despite having garnered so much success in a short amount of time, Brown is acutely aware that having the right horse is paramount to being able to compete at an elite level.

“At the end of the day, the horses have to have the natural talent for you to be able to look at the big races, no matter how good a trainer you are,” Brown said.

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‘I Don’t Have The Right Words To Describe It’: Jockey Alice Beckman Celebrates First Winner At Turfway Park

In her first race as a licensed jockey on March 20 at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., Alice Beckman finished second by a half-length. Back in the irons five days later, the end result saw the exact same margin between the first and second-place finishers: a half-length. This time, however, Beckman came out on the winning side of the wire.

“Going into it I thought the horse had a chance, so I tried to mentally prepare myself,” Beckman explained. “But you just can't prepare yourself for that feeling. It was so fun, and I don't have the right words to describe it, really.”

Both horses, Crown the Prince (1st on March 25) and So Caught Up In U (2nd on March 20), are trained by Beckman's boyfriend of the past several years, Keith Kinmon. The two-person team operates a training, breaking, and breeding business about 45 minutes away from Turfway in Northern Kentucky, doing all the work themselves on anywhere from 20 to 30 horses at a time.

“He's been so supportive of me wanting to ride races,” said Beckman, 28.

Beckman acknowledges that she's a bit later to the game of race-riding than most of her peers, despite growing up around horses in Ohio.

“It's always kind of been in the back of my mind, that I want to be a jockey,” she said. “I remember in kindergarten, the teacher had us write down what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote down three choices: a trick rider in the circus, a cowgirl, or a jockey. 

“I'd always been drawn to the racetrack, so when my college plans to go to vet school weren't really working out like I'd hoped, I made a new plan. My advisor was so great, he asked me, 'Taking away all the expectations of others, what's your dream job? What do you want to do every day?' The answer was simple: be a jockey.”

That advisor got Beckman into the Kentucky Equine Management Internship Program, and she spent several years working for Juddmonte Farm before heading to Payson Park in Florida to work with young racehorses. She loved the high-paced atmosphere of the racetrack, and so when she moved home to Ohio, Beckman started freelance exercising full time.

Beckman met Kinmon at Belterra Park in Cincinnati when he asked her to gallop a few horses one day. They've been inseparable ever since, working overtime to take care of their eight horses at Turfway and another 15-20 at the farm. Beckman couldn't have been more thrilled that her first win as a jockey came on a horse he both owns and trains.

“Have owned a few racehorses myself, it's always fun to be in the winner's circle,” said Beckman. “But when it was him and me in there, and I was on top of the horse, it was a whole different level.”

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Saturday’s Cross Country Pick 5 Handles $51,099, Pays Out $2,714

Saturday's Cross Country Pick 5, featuring action from Aqueduct Racetrack and Tampa Bay Downs, paid $2,714.25 for selecting all five winners for the 50-cent wager. The sequence's total pool was $51,099.

Aqueduct kicked off the wager when pacesetter Shamrocked had enough racing luck to hold off a late inside rally from Freudian Sip to secure a fifth lifetime victory in a six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares. The Michael Miceli trainee held on to win by a nose and returned $5.30 on a $2 win wager as the post-time favorite.

Action shifted to Tampa Bay Downs for the second leg, where Zenden battled a stubborn Souper Stonehenge to secure a second lifetime stakes win in the Pelican going six furlongs. Trained by Carlos David, the 5-year-old son of Fed Biz returned $16.40 for the triumph, which was his first stakes win since taking the Buffalo Man in December 2018 at Gulfstream Park.

Aqueduct took the reins for the middle leg of the sequence, where a field of eight went into line for a six-furlong allowance optional claiming tilt. Krakow Racing and America's Pastime Stables' Mi Tres Por Ciento secured command in mid-stretch to notch a 13th lifetime victory. Trained by Mertkan Kantarmaci, the Chilean-bred son of Ocean Terrace paid $13 to win.

Glorious Uncertainty Stable's Tiz Herself made her eighth lifetime start a winning one in the penultimate leg which was initially scheduled for the turf at Tampa Bay Downs before being moved to one mile and 40 yards on the main track. The daughter of 2011 Whitney and Met Mile winner Tizway was won by 1 ½ lengths as the lukewarm favorite and returned $8.40 for the win.

The curtain closed on the sequence in the Aqueduct finale, where Apex Predator maintained his advantage every step of the six-furlong journey to secure a maiden win at 23rd asking for trainer Mitchell Friedman. Guided by jockey Dylan Davis, Apex Predator paid $11.40.

The minimum bet for the multi-track, multi-race wager is 50 cents. Wagering on the Cross Country Pick 5 is also available on track, on ADW platforms, and at simulcast facilities across the country. Every week will feature a mandatory payout of the net pool.

The Cross Country Pick 5 will continue each Saturday throughout the year. For more information, visit NYRABets.com.

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