SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- When Serve the King rallied from off the pace to win Wednesday’s $120,000 John’s Call Stakes, it capped a five-win day at Saratoga for trainer Chad Brown. Brown, who said he couldn’t recall previously winning five races at one track on a single card, went 5 for 5 on Wednesday’s 10-race card. He won race 3 with Pocket Square ($2.30), the fifth with Digital Future ($4.20), the seventh with Gandy Dancing ($6.50), the eighth with Winter Pool ($4.50) and the John’s Call with Serve the King ($8.90). Todd Pletcher is believed to be the last trainer to win five races on one card at Saratoga. He went 5 for 5 on Aug. 30, 2004. :: Bet the races with confidence on DRF Bets. You're one click away from the only top-rated betting platform fully integrated with exclusive data, analysis, and expert picks. “Put it in the pile of highlights of my career so far,” Brown said. “Five really diverse winners too -- long, short, dirt, turf. My team and my horses were able to showcase today; really when the weather’s right and the horses are there, we can get the job done with any type of horse. It really was on display today.” Digital Future’s win came going 5 1/2 furlongs on turf. Serve the King won the John’s Call at 1 5/8 miles on turf. Brown said he wanted to stretch Serve the King out in distance in last year’s Red Smith, a 1 3/8-mile race at Aqueduct, but the horse got injured in the weeks leading up to the race. In three starts this year, all in graded stakes, Serve the King had a second and two fourth-place finishes. Brown felt Serve the King should have finished second to Tribhuvan in the Grade 1 United Nations at Monmouth Park, and felt this race would be a good spot to get the horse’s first stakes win. Wednesday, jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. was able to move Serve the King from the eight post to the inside by the time the field made its way around the far turn the first time. Ortiz stayed on the inside and in third while Conviction Trade and Ry’s the Guy spurted away from the field. Conviction Trade led until the top of the lane when Ry’s the Guy overtook him. Straightening away in the stretch, Ortiz got Serve the King off the hedge and he was able to gradually wear down Ry’s the Guy to win by a half-length. It was another two lengths back to Fantasioso, who was followed, in order, by Shamrocket, the 5-2 favorite, Ajourneytofreedom, Red Knight, and Conviction Trade. “I had to move a little early because they opened up a little bit on me, but he was catching up little by little,” said Ortiz, who was on three of Brown’s five winners. “He’s not the type of horse you’re going to ask and he’s going to respond right away. I start moving a little early at the half-mile. He did take the bit a little bit to let me know I had some horse and when I tipped him out here responded well.” Serve the King, a son of Kingman owned by Peter Brant, covered the 1 5/8 miles in 2:43.49 and returned $8.90 as the second choice. Brown credited his Monmouth assistant Luis Cabrera and his staff at that New Jersey track where Serve the King was based with preparing the horse for the John’s Call. “He’s a very quirky horse to train -- he’s getting better,” Brown said. “Luis and his crew have done such a great job.” The five wins vaulted Brown to the top of the trainer’s standings with 27 wins, now four more than Mike Maker. Brown, who has won three of the last five Saratoga titles, said weather that forced 39 turf races to the dirt through the first 30 days of the meet impacted his stable.