Reinvestment Risk's Stock Rising in Juvenile

Three years ago, trainer Chad Brown took e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables' Good Magic , the runner-up from the Champagne Stakes (G1), to Del Mar for the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). The Curlin  colt won by 4 1/4 lengths, a performance that led him to be honored with an Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male. 

Now Brown aims to repeat history in the Nov. 6 TVG Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance at Keeneland with Klaravich Stables' Reinvestment Risk, who chased frontrunning Jackie's Warrior in vain when second to him in the Champagne last month at Belmont Park. He also was second to Jackie's Warrior in the Runhappy Hopeful Stakes (G1) this summer at Saratoga Race Course.

Brown's record at the Breeders' Cup further suggests Reinvestment Risk commands respect. The trainer's 15 Breeders' Cup wins from 91 starters trail only the 20 victories from D. Wayne Lukas for most in Breeders' Cup history, and Brown has only trained for a fraction of the event's 37-year history. A former assistant to Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel, he began his training career in the fall of 2007 and won his first Breeders' Cup race a year later when Maram captured the 2008 Grey Goose Juvenile Fillies Turf. 

This year he has 13 Breeders' Cup entries, with Reinvestment Risk his only 2-year-old dirt runner.

"He's gonna really have to excel around the two turns, which I think he's looking for," Brown told Tim Wilkin, a pool reporter with the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters. "We're gonna need a better pace, someone to soften Jackie's Warrior up a little bit, and then see if he can handle that in his first start around two turns. Jackie's Warrior's been so impressive. It's gonna take us moving forward and him stepping back a little bit to close the gap because he's pretty good."

An Upstart  colt purchased by bloodstock agent Mike Ryan for $280,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, Reinvestment Risk appears well drawn in the 1 1/16-mile Juvenile in post 3. That draw likely leaves him positioned to save ground into the first of two turns and settle into a stalking position under Irad Ortiz Jr. 

Likeable, Classier, Dreamer's Disease, and Next join Jackie's Warrior as Juvenile entrants who have scored frontrunning victories, and their presence could lead to quick fractions.

Bred in Kentucky by Aschinger Bloodstock Holdings, Reinvestment Risk is out of the Candy Ride  mare Ridingwiththedevil, whose four wins came in sprints. Devil's Drama (by Dramedy), the dam's only other foal to race, won going a mile last fall as a 2-year-old at Churchill Downs.

Brown's deepest cast of runners comes in the Nov. 7 Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T), where he runs four horses: Sistercharlie, My Sister Nat, Rushing Fall, and Nay Lady Nay.

Sistercharlie, the winner of the Filly and Mare Turf in 2018 during a championship season, and My Sister Nat are half sisters owned by Peter Brant who are uncoupled in the wagering. Rushing Fall, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, is 3-for-3 this year for e Five Racing Thoroughbreds, and longshot Nay Lady Nay is 2-for-4 for First Row Partners and Hidden Brook Farm.

"They are four really nice horses that any trainer would love to have just one of them," Brown said.

The Filly and Mare Turf is a race the 41-year-old Brown has won four times, most recently with Sistercharlie. He is the winningest trainer in grass races in Breeders' Cup history.

This year he seems most proud of the broad-ranging group of runners he and his staff have for the two-day sequence of races.

"When you look at the overall number of horses we have, it's really remarkable about the diversity of the horses," he said. "We were able to successfully train these horses—a wide variety of different types of horses for different clients—and really provide a good service for them, no matter what type of horse they give us."