Payson Park

The 2025-2026 season has come to a close at 🌴

We thank everyone for their patronage and wish our winter resident horses, trainers, staff, and connections the best of luck on the road this summer racing season 🍀 🐎 We look forward to seeing you again this fall 🗓️

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Four stakes winners on Oaks/Derby weekend (and another two at Belmont at the Big A) 🏆💪

Congratulations to our winter residents and connections! 👏

winter resident trainers added a pair of Grade 3 wins at Belmont at the Big A to an impressive weekend tally 💪

🏆 CITY GIRL (FR), trained by Chad Brown, recorded her first career graded stakes win in the Beaugay S. (G3).
🏆 DETERMINISTIC, trained by Miguel Clement, defended his title in the Fort Marcy (G3), earning a wire-to-wire victory for the second year in a row.

Both horses posted their final breezes ahead of their wins at Payson. Congratulations to all the connections! 👏

📸: Susie Raisher & Coglianese Photos

was represented by another stakes winner on Derby/Oaks weekend when TOUR PLAYER captured the Knicks Go S. Saturday at Churchill Downs 🏆

Congratulations to Payson Park winter resident trainer Whit Beckman! 👏 Beckman also trained Ocelli to a third-place finish in the Kentucky Derby 🥉 Both horses spent their winter seasons training with us in Indiantown 🌴 Well done!

Congratulations to winter resident trainer Chad Brown on your first career Kentucky Oaks victory 🎉

ALWAYS A RUNNER won the Run for the Lillies Horses that spent their winter season at Payson captured 5️⃣ wins on Oaks day:

🌷 Kentucky Oaks (G1): ALWAYS A RUNNER, trained by Chad Brown
🔔 Eight Belles S. (G2): ON TIME GIRL, trained by Brad Cox
☺️ Modesty S. (G3): KATHYNMARISSA, trained by Chad Brown
🥇 Maiden Special Weight: PASSERINE, trained by Brad Cox
🥇 Allowance Opt. Claiming: CARMEL COAST, trained by Whit Beckman

Congratulations to all the connections! 👏

The fields have been set for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks! 🤩

is proud to have been the winter training base of 4️⃣ Derby horses and 2️⃣ Oaks entrants, conditioned by winter resident trainers Chad Brown, Brad Cox, and Bill Mott 👏

🌹 Commandment
🌹 Chief Wallabee
🌹 Emerging Market
🌹 Further Ado
🌷 Always a Runner
🌷 Prom Queen

Best of luck and safe trips to all this week 🍀 We'll be cheering hard from Indiantown! 🌴

We are incredibly proud to see the late Christophe Clement, a longtime winter resident trainer, deservingly elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Clement (1965-2025), a native of Paris, France, won 2,576 races with purse earnings of $184,127,449 million (12th all time) in a career that spanned from 1991 through 2025, when he lost his courageous battle with cancer.

Among his top trainees were three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti; 2014 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Tonalist, who also won consecutive runnings of the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) in 2014 and 2015; and 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) winner, Pizza Bianca 🏆

Today, Christophe's son Miguel Clement continues his legacy at Payson. Congratulations to the entire Clement family on this recognition.

The 2026 Hall of Fame Class will be enshrined at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at Fasig-Tipton’s Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The event will be aired live at 🔗 racingmuseum.org.

Proud of the winter residents that were honored by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders and Kentucky Thoroughbred Association with 2025 year-end awards April 10 in Lexington, KY:

🏆 Sovereignty: KTOB Horse of the Year & KTOB 3-year-old Male of the Year
🏆 Brad Cox: KTDF Trainer of the Year
🏆 Sierra Leone: KTOB Older Dirt Male of the Year
🏆 Deterministic: KTOB Male Turf Horse of the Year
🏆 Hit Show: KTOB Racing Abroad Winner

All of these award winners trained at Payson during their award winning seasons. Congratulations! 👏

congratulates winter resident trainer Chad Brown on his 3000th career win 🏆 taking the 2026 edition of the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) with ZULU KINGDOM 👑 Congratulations to all the connections! 👏

Winter resident trainers Brown, Roger Attfield, Shug McGaughey and Bill Mott have combined to win this race 8️⃣ times. Swipe ➡️ to see a full list of winners 🤩

📸: Sarah Andrew

An incredible Saturday of stakes action across the country saw four graded stakes victories for winter resident trainers 🤩

Three of those wins came for the Brad Cox stable:
🏆 Blue Grass S. (G1): FURTHER ADO
🏆 Madison S. (G1): ECLATANT
🏆 Commonwealth S. (G3): SAUDI CROWN

The Gazelle S. (G3) saw a win for ALWAYS A RUNNER, trained by Chad Brown 🏆

All four of these horses spent their winters with us at Payson 🌴 Congratulations to all the connections! 👏

FURTHER ADO also secured a place in the Kentucky Derby starting gate, earning 100 qualifying points. He sits second on the American Leaderboard 🌹

📸: EquiSport Photos, Coady Media & Coglianese Photos

FAR BRIDGE just might be a Floridian 😎

The 6-year-old horse returned from a six-month layoff to defend his title in the Pan American S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. Congratulations to Miguel Clement! 🏆

Far Bridge has not lost is five career starts at Gulstream. It's a joy to have him with us during the winter months in Indiantown! 🌴

📸: Coglianese Photos