Brown has contenders to continue hot streak

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Chad Brown has been on a remarkable hot streak the last two weeks at Aqueduct, winning 11 races from 13 in which he’s had starters. His successful run could very well continue Thursday when Brown sends out two runners in the featured first-level allowance scheduled for 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course, as well as a first-time starting New York-bred in a turf sprint in the finale.

In race 6, the Brown-trained turf fillies Tax Implications and Revalita make their 4-year-old debuts, with both coming off significant layoffs after racing in a series of stakes.

Tax Implications, an English-bred daughter of Mehmas owned by Klaravich Stables, will make her first start since she finished sixth in the Winter Memories Stakes last Sept. 15. Prior to that, Tax Implications was fourth in the Grade 3 Lake Placid, which followed a string of narrow defeats that included the Lake George and Wild Applause.

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In her two races at Saratoga last summer, Tax Implications didn’t have the smoothest of trips and had to rally wide.

Most of Tax Implications’ losses have come to other Brown-trained horses, including Liguria in the Wild Applause, Surge Capacity in the Lake George, and Aspray in the Lake Placid. In the latter two races at Saratoga, Brown runners finished 1-2-4-5.

Manny Franco will ride Tax Implications from the outside post in the field of eight. The rail on the inner turf will be out nine feet beginning Thursday.

Brown also sends out Revalita, who makes her first start since finishing fourth in the Lake George last July. Prior to that, she had suffered narrow defeats in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride at Gulfstream Park and Grade 2 Edgewood at Churchill Downs, where she displayed a strong turn of foot.

Trevor McCarthy rides Revalita from post 2.

Trainer Christophe Clement also sends out two runners in race 6, the New York-bred Silver Skillet and the French-bred In Time. Clement scratched Silver Skillet out of Sunday’s Plenty of Grace Stakes. She is making her first start since finishing fourth, beaten three-quarters of a length in the Grade 3 Pebbles Stakes here last Nov. 11.

In Time ran once for Clement last November and finished fifth. Clement said he thought In Time was a bit too keen in that race and said he had to back off the filly shortly thereafter due to foot issues.

In Thursday’s nightcap, a six-furlong maiden turf sprint for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, Brown sends out Rookie League, a 3-year-old daughter of Maximus Mischief making her career debut.

Her dam, Frolic’s Candy, was unraced and neither of her two progeny have run well in a combined three starts.

Of the horses in the race who have run, Heavenly Girl, a daughter of War Dancer, finished a good second in her lone start last summer. She is a half-sister to Twenty Six Black, who like Heavenly Girl ran well in her lone start at 2 at Saratoga, then came back to win her 3-year-old debut sprinting at Aqueduct the following April. Horacio De Paz, who trained Twenty Six Black, sends out Heavenly Girl.

Cerretta, who goes out for Kevin Bond, and Turriga, who goes out for Bond's father, H. James Bond, are also contenders in this maiden event.

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