Chad Brown has won a lot of races at the Saratoga Race Course. The Mechanicville native has won seven trainer titles at his hometown track. But entering the summer meet, Brown had yet to win either the Whitney Stakes or the Travers Stakes – the two biggest races at the Saratoga Race Course.

On Saturday, Brown finally crossed one of those milestone wins off the list, scoring his first Whitney win as Sierra Leone and jockey Flavien Prat swept down the stretch to capture the Grade 1, $1 million race by a length over Highland Falls.