Brown Lands Eclipse Award Hat Trick

For the third year in a row, trainer Chad Brown added an Eclipse Award to his already laden mantle as he repeated as outstanding trainer for 2018.

In what ended as another incredible season, Brown sent out the winners of 224 races from 839 starts for total earnings of $27,546,057. On par with last year's tally, he again notched 47 graded stakes victories, an impressive 36 of which were won on turf. Brown once again led all trainers on the turf in 2018 with 140 wins from 500 starts on the grass and $17,260,362 in total earnings. 

In addition to victories earned across the country, Brown also registered his fourth consecutive New York Racing Association year-end training title in 2018. The conditioner saddled 154 winners at the NYRA tracks of Belmont Park, Saratoga Race Course, and Aqueduct Racetrack, for earnings of $15.62 million. Brown also set a meet record of 46 wins at Saratoga, breaking his previous personal record of 40 wins set in 2016. 

Among Brown's top runners for 2018 was e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stables' champion 2-year-old Good Magic , who posted a runner-up effort behind eventual Triple Crown winner Justify  in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1). The colt scored twice at the graded level for Brown during his sophomore campaign, winning both the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) and betfair.com Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) before retiring to stud at Hill 'n' Dale Farms. 

Other notable names from the Brown barn include A Raving Beauty, who picked up wins in the Beaugay Stakes (G3T), Longines Just A Game Stakes (G1T), and First Lady Stakes (G1T); and Fourstar Crook, who posted wins in the Hillsborough Stakes (G2T), New York Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G2T), and Flower Bowl Stakes (G1T). 

Chilean-bred runner Robert Bruce provided Brown with his second consecutive win in the Arlington Million XXXVI Stakes (G1T), a half-length over stablemate Almanaar. 

While Brown did not send out a classic winner, he scored two Breeders' Cup victories in 2018. Klaravich Stables' Newspaperofrecord took the Nov. 2 Breeders' Cup Juveniles Fillies Turf (G1T) at Churchill Downs, and Peter Brant's Sistercharlie—Brown's most successful runner of 2018 with total purse earnings of $2,054,200—followed one day later with a win in the Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T). Sistercharlie was named champion female turf horse.