IN the midst of a powerful stand at Saratoga, Chad Brown took his show on the road and dominated the two Grade 1 stakes races at Arlington Park last Saturday.

Hardly dominant on recent form, Beach Patrol snapped a six-race losing streak to secure the Arlington Million, while Dacita snapped a three-race losing streak by taking the Beverly D.

Owned by James Covello, Sheep Pond Partners and Head of Plains Partners, Beach Patrol found the perfect spot in the always-tactical Million, stalking longshot Oak Brook and getting first run on the Irish-breds Fanciful Angel and Deauville to score by a half-length.

Joel Rosario guided the four-year-old son of Lemon Drop Kid, who captured the Secretariat Stakes at Arlington last summer.

CONFIDENT

“I was confident that he was going to run his race,” said James Covello. “He’s been a little unlucky outside of Arlington, whether it’s the trip, or where he finds himself between other horses. He’s a horse that likes to stalk other horses from the outside. He’s drawn outside both times at Arlington, and he likes that.

“He’s run the same race a lot this year and obviously it hasn’t always been good enough, but this time it was. I had a lot of confidence in him, but there were a lot of good horses in there and, boy, what a thrill.”

A race earlier, Brown opened his Grade 1 scourge when Dacita rallied from eighth to win the Beverly D by a half-length over a dead-heat between Dona Bruja and Grand Jete.

Ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., the Chilean-bred Dacita ousted an international cast that included two Irish-breds, a German-bred, an Argentine-bred and a British-bred.

Owned by Sheep Pond Partners and Bradley Thoroughbreds, Dacita bounced back from a sixth in the New York Handicap on June 9th. Brown regrouped, skipped the Diana at Saratoga, a race she won last year, and booked Dacita for her first foray to Arlington.

Pete Bradley imported Dacita after she won three Grade 1 stakes races in Chile. He rallied seven investors in Bradley Thoroughbreds and recruited Sol Kumin’s Sheep Pond Partners to buy the rest of her. It was first and only South American horse deal for Bradley.

“You know how hard they are to come by. It’s so hard to buy horses in South America. In any year the top five horses there can be as good as any in the world, but it’s a small pool. Getting a line on them is so much harder than in Europe,” Bradley said.

“A friend, Fernando Diaz-Valdes, had sent her to me, I watched her tapes, she had a turn of foot, she was consistent and she had what I look for in Europe. She set four track records down there, fast horses are usually good horses anywhere in the world. And then you get lucky.”