Chad Brown's Name Returns to the Flower Bowl Conversation

The Flower Bowl Stakes is run Thursday as a Grade 2 with a $500,000 purse, and that is reason enough for the turf set to plan around it. The race already carries Chad Brown's mark, since the trainer's stable has sent out a Flower Bowl winner before, and his name is attached to this year's renewal too. For readers who follow the barn rather than the board, his return to the race is the story, and it shows how steadily one American operation keeps turning up in good company on the grass. We'll leave the predicting to others and simply watch the field go to the post.

With reporting from America's Best Racing.