Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown is known for his success with turf fillies, but he's not interested in being pigeon-holed.

“The reason for that is not my personal ego or what somebody might write or say about me. It's for recruiting purposes,” he said. “I want to have the opportunity to work with all kinds of horses and have potential Kentucky Derby and Travers horses sent to me."

Churchill Downs President Kevin Flanery was among the representatives on hand as the racetrack gave several media outlets a tour on Tuesday of the new $16 million renovations of the second-floor clubhouse that are nearing completion.

Multiple Grade 1 winner Miss Temple City will be forced to miss Keeneland's upcoming spring meet – and a planned start in either the G1 Jenny Wiley or G1 Maker's 46 Mile – as the result of missing some training time last month in Florida.

It's all so improbable, from the $8,500 colt to the second-chance racehorse owner to the jockey who'd learned he would never ride again. But when Conquest Mo Money turned back California invader Irap in Sunland Park's Mine That Bird Derby Feb. 26, drawing away to win by two lengths, the Derby dream started to catch hold of trainer Miguel Hernandez and owner Tom McKenna.

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