Brown's juvenile brigade to get break

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When Neural Network made a successful debut on Sunday at Aqueduct, it was the 11th 2-year-old winner sent out by trainer Chad Brown in New York since Oct. 14.

On Sunday morning, before Neural Network - a son of Cloud Computing - won his debut by five lengths, Brown said the majority of those babies won’t run again until 2023. The one exception is Liguria, who could ship cross-country for the Grade 3, $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes at Del Mar on Dec. 3.

Good Sam, who won the Tempted Stakes on Nov. 6, had a minor procedure to clean up an ankle chip.

“She just needed to be stopped on, point her to next year,” Brown said. “She came out of [the Tempted] with a minor ankle chip.”

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Good Sam was one of eight juvenile fillies that Brown won with over the last month at Aqueduct. Fireline, a daughter of Arrogate, won a one-mile maiden race by 13 1/4 lengths on Nov. 4 after finishing fifth to Good Sam in her six-furlong debut in the slop on Oct. 2. Undervalued Asset, a daughter of Speightstown, won her debut going six furlongs by 8 1/4 lengths on Nov. 10.

“She won going six furlongs and she’s by Speightstown, but you look at her and she’s a big imposing horse,” Brown said. “I don’t know that she’s a sprinter, I don’t think so."

Other 2-year-old filly winners sent out by Brown during this recent run include Disruption (by Practical Joke), Interpolate (by Into Mischief), and Idea Generation (Dubawi), and Implicated (Connect) who won the Chelsey Flower Stakes on turf. Among the juvenile colt winners, in addition to Neural Network, were Activist Investing (Kingman), and Cascais (Into Mischief).

Eventually, that group will join Blazing Sevens, the Champagne winner and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile fourth-place finisher, and Raging Sea, third in the BC Juvenile Fillies, at Brown’s winter base of Payson Park, a training center in Indiantown, Fla.

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