Trainer Graham Motion was talking the other day – talking, not whining – about running a filly in a graded Saratoga turf stakes. The problem one always seemed to encounter in such races, Motion said, was Chad Brown. Brown inevitably had at least one live chance, and probably more than one, to oppose you. The race in question was the New York. Motion’s horse ran sixth. Brown sent out the winner, as well as the third-, fourth-, and fifth-place finishers. So, when Motion entered the South African import Gimme a Nother to make her 2026 debut in the Eatontown Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park, he knew what was coming. In most races like the 1 1/16-mile Eatontown – Grade 3, $150,000 – Gimme a Nother would probably look pretty strong. Here she looks like one of three plausible winners, the other two, Grayosh and Whiskey Decision, from the Brown stable. Eight were entered in the Eatontown but that’s a bogus number. Creative Stuff and Rhee Wall couldn’t win if you gave them a 30-yard head start, pure filler to boost entry numbers. Strutherstuff was entered without a rider named: We’ll see if she makes the gate. Coast to coast, Brown’s a powerhouse in turf stakes races, but even taking that into account, his Monmouth record still seems remarkable. Since 2021, Brown has gone 25-9-13 with 75 Monmouth turf stakes runners, and keep in mind, he’s had multiple entries in a large portion of those races. No other trainer has won more than eight Monmouth turf stakes over the same period. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. Gimme a Nother, a 6-year-old bred on Southern Hemisphere time, was a South African star, going 7 for 7 there during 2023-24 and whistling to two easy Group 1 wins. She joined Motion’s barn for the 2025 racing season and put together a strong campaign, her only subpar showing over a boggy Saratoga course, her only win in her season’s finale, the Grade 2 John Mabee in California. While Motion only ran her at nine furlongs and beyond, the mare excelled as a South African miler and ought to be sharp enough to handle Saturday’s distance. Brown’s two, however, both have raced this year, and have proven form over the Monmouth course. Grayosh, on the surface, is the “B” Team. Tyler Gaffalione named to ride, Grayosh went 0 for 6 during her 4-year-old campaign last year, though only a neck short of winning the Grade 3 Matchmaker over this course. Flavien Prat rides Whiskey Decision, whom Brown, before the mare’s fourth-place finish May 1 in the Modesty Stakes at Churchill, termed something of an overachiever. Whiskey Decision, Brown said, needed everything to break her way to contend with truly top-class turf fillies – but she meets no such horse Saturday. Making her first start back from a long layoff, she won the 2025 Eatontown by two lengths, and while tougher foes populate this field, Gimme a Nother among them, Brown once again probably has the right mare for a graded turf-route stakes. Monmouth Stakes The multiple Grade 1 winner Program Trading began his career a little more than three years ago at Monmouth, winning a turf-route maiden by five lengths. Saturday, racing at Monmouth for the first time since his debut, Program Trading tries to get his career back on track in the $125,000 Monmouth Stakes. Program Trading does not need to bounce back anywhere close to his best to win the 1 1/8-mile Monmouth, which drew eight entrants, none close to Program Trading’s class, even at his diminished level. Program Trading, a 6-year-old on an eight-race, 13-month losing streak, probably has never been quite the same horse since missing the better part of 15 months between June 2024 and August 2025. He did come within less than a length of winning the Grade 1 Coolmore Turf Mile last fall at Keeneland, a race short of his best distance, but in four subsequent outings has failed to run back to that performance. Brown, looking for some kind of spark, tried Program Trading in blinkers May 2 in the Grade 1 Turf Classic, but the equipment change produced no forward move at all, and blinkers come off Saturday. The more important change in the Monmouth is a major class drop, the softest spot Program Trading has found since his Monmouth debut. Prat rides Program Trading, while Gaffalione will be aboard the Brown-trained England import Nebras, who would have a shot at an upset if his synthetic surface form transfers to grass. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.