SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - As elated as Chad Brown was to win the Grade 1 Diana for a record-extending 10th time on Saturday, the five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer is frustrated at the calendar moving forward in the older female turf division.  Whether it’s because of timing or distance, Brown is not sure what to do next with Excellent Truth, who edged She Feels Pretty by a head in Saturday’s $500,000 Diana. One race that he’s typically pointed his Diana horses to, the Grade 2, $300,000 Ballston Spa Stakes here, has been moved from Travers weekend to Aug. 8. New York Racing Association officials made that move in part to get the race away from some of the more lucrative spots at Kentucky Downs in September.  “I can’t see any scenario where I would wheel her back in that race,” Brown said Sunday. “I don’t know why we’re focusing on moving that race to coordinate with a schedule in Kentucky. I don’t understand that. I don’t think we should be crafting our stakes schedule around stakes that we don’t hold.”  Brown also doesn’t necessarily like the Grade 2, $500,000 Flower Bowl here on Aug 30 because at 1 3/8-miles, the race is run around three turns. He’s looking more for races run at two turns and from 1 1/8 miles to 1 1/4 miles. Before being moved to Saratoga, the Flower Bowl was run at 1 1/4 miles at Belmont Park.  :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “That race is supposed to be a two-turn race,” Brown said. “The two leading horses in the division just had a great battle down to the wire in the Diana and neither of them want to go three turns. So why do we have a three-turn race like the Flower Bowl when the best horses in the division don’t want to run three turns? I told the Breeders’ Cup the same thing.”  The Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf has been run at different distances, depending on venue. At Del Mar, where it was held last year and will be held this year, it’s run at 1 3/8 miles (though in 2017 it was run at 1 1/8 miles). At Santa Anita, it’s run at 1 1/4 miles and at Keeneland it’s run at 1 3/16 miles.  Brown, who has won the BC Filly and Mare Turf four times and at three different distances, believes that race should be two turns, not three.  “It makes no sense and judging by my Diana record I’d be an expert in this category,” Brown said. “I’d ask me, but what do I know?”  One schedule change that could potentially work in favor of Excellent Truth and Brown is the fact the Grade 1, $750,000 E.P. Taylor, run at 1 1/4 miles at Woodbine, has been moved to Aug. 16 from mid-September and previously early October.  Brown believes Excellent Truth’s win over She Feels Pretty puts her at the head of the filly and mare turf division. Before her victory in the Diana, Excellent Truth finished second in both the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley and Grade 1 Just a Game, at 1 1/16 miles and one mile, respectively.  “You could argue with a little better racing luck she could have won all three of her starts here,” said Brown, referring to the U.S. “If she had, right now everyone would be viewing her as the clear leader of the division. I still think she’s the slight leader of the division with a heads up win there just now.”  :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.