Trainer Brown closing on $300M in earnings

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Chad Brown is on the verge of becoming the fifth trainer in North American history to surpass the $300 million mark in career purse earnings.

Brown, who swept the three stakes run at Aqueduct over the weekend, enters this week with $299,980,856 in career purse earnings. Brown, 45, will join Todd Pletcher, Steve Asmussen, Bob Baffert and Bill Mott as the trainers who have surpassed the $300 million earnings mark.

Brown won Saturday’s Athenia with Child of the Moon, the Awad with Valuation Metric, and Sunday’s Chelsey Flower Stakes with Opulent Restraint.

Those three wins give Brown 60 stakes win on the year, six more than Brad Cox, who ranks second in that category.

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Brown ran 1-2 in the Athenia with Child of the Moon and Prerequisite, with the former beating the latter by a neck. Both fillies have come back from injuries that forced them to miss significant time. Both are going to be considered for the $500,000 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream on Jan. 25, and they could possibly just train up to the race.

“Both horses could fit the Pegasus, it’s just am I going to run them before that?” Brown said. “I don’t really have to. I’m comfortable training up to the race. I like fresh horses. I think both horses are very much under consideration for that race.”

On Sunday, Opulent Restraint just got up by a nose over Rare Art in the $145,100 Chelsey Flower Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. Brown's Opulent Restraint, a daughter of Dubawi out of the mare Significant Form, the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner trained by Brown, is a horse Brown has big expectations for as a 3-year-old in 2025.

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