He has pushed back against the categorization, resisting being pigeonholed, but Chad Brown still is widely known as a turf trainer. This is not a bad thing! The label might not be fair, but if it’s applied, it comes with the extremely important detail that Chad Brown is North America’s best turf trainer. Todd Pletcher topped all trainers during 2021 with 35 graded stakes wins, 25 on dirt, 10 on turf. Bob Baffert won 33 graded stakes during 2021, 32 on dirt, one on turf. Brown equaled Baffert’s total of 33, 27 graded turf stakes, just six on dirt. Even with many of his very best performers retired for breeding, Brown had a powerhouse turf team, led by Domestic Spending, a finalist for the Turf Male Eclipse Award. Domestic Spending won two Grade 1’s, including one of Brown’s most coveted prizes, the Resorts World Casino Manhattan, where his stable also took down second with the vastly improved Tribhuvan, in July the winner of the Grade 1 United Nations at Monmouth Park. Brown fell just shy of 200 winners on the year, with 196, and had stable earnings of $22.2 million. :: Full list of 2021 Eclipse Awards finalists, including profile stories And he developed one of 2021’s top 2-year-olds in North America, Jack Christopher – a dirt horse.