Brown works five of his Breeders' Cup horses on Monday
ELMONT, N.Y. – Led by Rushing Fall and Sistercharlie, five of trainer Chad Brown’s possible 12 Breeders’ Cup candidates put in workouts Monday morning over Belmont Park’s yielding inner turf course.
Rushing Fall, working on the outside, and Sistercharlie went five furlongs as a team in 1:02.80, coming home their final quarter in 24.58 seconds around orange cones, referred to as dogs, over a course that had plenty of give in it following weekend rains. It’s the type of course they could encounter at Keeneland in early November.
“It was a really, really good work, very pleased with both horses,” Brown said. “The course had some give in it, and they both handled it fine.”
Rushing Fall is 3 for 3 this year with Grade 1 victories in the Jenny Wiley at Keeneland and the Diana at Saratoga. She is returning to Keeneland where she has won 4 of 5 starts, including the Jessamine at 2 and the Appalachian at 3, both over soft or yielding turf.
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Sistercharlie is 0 for 2 this year. She did cap her championship 4-year-old season with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf over extremely soft ground – though it was labeled good – at Churchill Downs in 2018.
Brown said My Sister Nat, the half-sister to Sistercharlie and runner-up in the Grade 1 Flower Bowl on Oct. 10, is probable for the Filly and Mare Turf. She will return to the work tab next weekend.
Also working for Brown on turf Monday were Digital Age, who went five furlongs in company with Delaware in 1:03.80. Digital Age is pointing to the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Uni, last year’s BC Mile winner, and Domestic Spending, who is being pointed to the Hollywood Derby at Del Mar at the end of November, went a half-mile in company in 50.63 seconds. Brown has liked the way Uni has trained since her victory in the Grade 1 First Lady on Oct. 3 at Keeneland.
“She’s coming around at the right time,” Brown said. “She has a big shot in that race.”
Brown left Mile candidates Raging Bull and Without Parole in Kentucky following their second- and third-place finishes, respectively, in the Shadwell Turf Mile. They worked a half-mile in 50 seconds on Sunday at Keeneland.
Public Sector, Brown’s probable runner in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, went a half-mile in 51.98 in company with Editor At Large at Belmont.