Smooth Air taken from Stutts
 

Mount Joy Stables owner Brian Burns has moved Smooth Air from trainer Bennie Stutts into the barn off Chad Brown. Stutts helmed the Smooth Jazz 4 year old to three Gr. II wins and earnings of more than $1,000,000 in 15 starts including the placement in Monday's Gr. I Metropolitan Handicap.

Could this be just for a focus on the NY races and Stutts isn't locally based in NY?

That is unfortunate.

Unfortunately, figures that Stutts said in a phone interview on HRTV earlier in the day that no matter what, he wasn't worried that the owners would take the horse away from him.

wow, that's gotta hurt.


who's chad brown?

He's a former Frankel assistant who trained Maram to her BC win last year. I think someone on this board has some horses with him.

He's definitely a good trainer and has already earned the right to have a big name horse in his barn. However, the circumstances with which he's getting that horse could be better.

NT

oh..ok...he's the young guy that won with her on the same day as his granddads funeral, right? i couldn't place him til you said maram.

gosh I feel out of touch.

Who is Maram and what race did she win?

No worries, especially considering she hasn't come back this year. She won the BC Juv Fillies Turf on Friday of BC weekend.

It was also the same day as Chad Brown's grandfather's funeral. It happened to also be Jose Lezcano's 1st BC win in his 1st try.

NT

Ask GPK. :D :$:

Juvenile Filly Turf I believe.

bc juvie filly turf

she nipped heart shaped, which was my pick...

Juvy Filly Turf

Thanks guys... def must have missed that race LOL

So did Consequence.

That's really sad. I remember in last year's Derby, he was interviewed in the paddock and all he could talk about was how Allen Jerkens called him to wish him luck and how much that meant to him.

Chad Brown grew up in Mechanicville NY about 15 mins from Saratoga.....

also, welcome aboard Dick Powell !

Good for Chad Brown. Hopefully he'll do well with him

Does not seem fair...such is life.

More importantly...what does "helmed" mean ?

steered?