DEL MAR, Calif. – An all-Chad Brown superfecta in a Grade 1 race for fillies and mares on turf is becoming an annual event. On Sunday at Del Mar, the 3-year-old filly Surge Capacity caught stablemate Fluffy Socks near the finish of the $303,500 Matriarch Stakes at a mile, with two other Brown-trained runners, Beaute Cachee and Whitebeam, finishing third and fourth. Those were Brown’s only runners in the 12-horse field. “All four ran really well,” Brown said late Sunday afternoon. In the summer of 2022, four different Brown-trained fillies – In Italian, Technical Analysis, Bleecker Street, and Rougir – completed the superfecta in a field of six in the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Saratoga. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match + FREE All Access PPs! Join DRF Bets. The success reflects Brown’s overall success and the depth of his stable, notably in turf races. Surge Capacity gave Brown his sixth win in the last seven runnings of the Matriarch, California’s leading race for female turf milers. The Brown superfecta in the Matriarch came a day after he won the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar with the lightly raced Program Trading. Program Trading, and particularly the fillies and mares from the Matriarch, are bound for Florida this month, and are unlikely to race again until the spring. “We’ll take these horses down to Florida and regroup,” he said. “This was a hard race for all four.” Brown mentioned the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes at a mile on turf for fillies and mares at Keeneland in April as “a race I’ve always targeted” and a possible goal for some of his Matriarch runners. “We’ll map out a campaign,” he said. The Grade 3 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational, a $500,000 race at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 27, is not a likely goal, Brown said. Surge Capacity had her fifth start in the Matriarch, by far the least experience in the field of 12. Surge Capacity, by Flintshire, did not start until June because of minor problems in 2022. “She was coming along very well,” Brown said. “She had some sore shins at 2.” The filly impressed Brown and his team before her debut at Monmouth. “She was training really, really well,” Brown said. “We quite liked her going into that.” Surge Capacity won the Grade 3 Lake George Stakes in her stakes debut at Saratoga in July, finished second in the Grade 2 Lake Placid Stakes at Saratoga in August, and won the Grade 3 Valley View Stakes at Keeneland in October in advance of the Matriarch, her first start in a stakes against older fillies and mares. Program Trading, also owned by Klaravich Stables, had a remarkably similar year, winning his debut in a maiden race at Monmouth Park in May. He later won the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby in August and was second to the highly regarded Integration in the Grade 3 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs in September before the Hollywood Derby. Purchased for $365,000 as a yearling in Great Britain, Program Trading gave Brown a fourth career win in the Hollywood Derby, and first since Domestic Spending in 2020. Program Trading, ridden by Flavien Prat, rallied from sixth on the turn to finish a neck in front of Webslinger in the $301,000 race at 1 1/8 miles on turf. “I’m so proud of him,” Brown said. “Flavien rode a terrific race.” Program Trading and Webslinger, who is trained by Mark Casse, were first and second in the Saratoga Derby, separated by a head. “The runner-up ran terrific,” Brown said. “He’s formidable. Both times we were able to get the better of him in the stretch.” Brown joined the late Hall of Fame legends Charlie Whittingham and Bobby Frankel as the only four-time winners of the Hollywood Derby. Brown, 44, never met Whittingham, who died in 1999, but did work for Frankel, who spoke frequently of Whittingham and his training methods. “To win that race for a fourth time, what an honor,” Brown said. “Working for Frankel, he’d tell stories about Charlie. He’d watch him train.” Program Trading was similar to Surge Capacity in that he needed additional time to start his career. “Patience, patience, patience,” Brown said. “If they can’t run at 2, I don’t want to run them at 2.” Over the weekend, the deliberate approach led to wins by two lightly-raced 3-year-olds highly likely to be in the national conversation in 2024. –additional reporting by David Grening :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.