Brown sending Chili Flag, Whitebeam to First Lady
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As trainer Chad Brown runs four of his stakes-caliber older turf fillies and mares in Thursday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Ballston Spa Stakes, he is pointing two Grade 1 winners of 2024 to the Grade 1 First Lady on Oct. 5 at Keeneland.
Chili Flag, who has three stakes win this year including the Grade 1 Just a Game, has been off the work tab since Aug. 2 owing to a temperature, Brown said.
Whitebeam, who won the Grade 1 Diana for the second consecutive year in July, has worked three times since that victory.
Meanwhile, Brown reported that two of his older male turf horses are sidelined.
Program Trading, winner of the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, got very sick after his fifth-place finish as the favorite in the Grade 1 Manhattan and won’t run again in 2024.
I’m Very Busy, winner of the Grade 2 Muniz Memorial at Fair Grounds before running seventh in the Old Forester Turf Classic and Manhattan, also went to the sidelines due to illness. Brown said it is possible I’m Very Busy could make it back to the races before the end of the year.
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