SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It only seems like trainer Chad Brown wins the GI Diana Stakes every year. Right?Oh, yeah. The Diana, worth $500,000, has become Brown's personal playground. All you need to do to believe is just examine the stats.The last four years, the winner of the 1 1/8-mile test on the inner turf course has come from Brown's barn. Nine of the last 10 editions of the Diana have belonged to a Brown filly or mare.All told, since 2011, Brown has held the Diana trophy in the Saratoga winner's circle 10 times. Ten wins in the last 15 runnings. Not a bad record.The Diana, first run in 1939, rolls around again on Saturday, and Brown, as usual, will be the one to beat. He has four horses entered in the field of seven and they are the top four choices: Kathynmarissa (American Pharoah), 2-1, Portfolio Duration (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), 5-2, Segesta (Ghostzapper), 3-1 and Dynamic Pricing (Ire) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), 6-1.Dynamic Pricing is the only one of the Brown quartet to have participated in the Diana before; she finished third last year as stablemate Excellent Truth (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}) won.“This is a race I obviously point towards every year,” Brown said Thursday morning in his office at his barn at the Oklahoma Training Track. “The race holds a lot of prestige in the filly and mare turf division. It's one of the really big races in the country outside of the Breeders' Cup.”Segesta in the paddock at the Spa | Sarah AndrewBrowns planning for the Diana starts long before he brings his horses to Saratoga in the springtime.“It is difficult,” he said. “You have to have the right horses, and we have a feel as to what horses will fit that race. Then I start working backwards from (the Diana) many months out to see which ones can fit.”As successful as he has been in the race, Brown is not resting on his laurels. That has never been his style, never will be either.“Honestly, I don't focus too much with stuff in the rear view,” he said. “But I am very appreciative and honored. My team and I feel a huge sense of accomplishment when you look at that record. It does mean a lot.”Brown has a big day on Saturday. Besides the Diana, he also has a horse running in the $1 million GI NYRABets Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park in Iron Honor (Nyquist), who is the 3-1 third choice on the morning line in the field of six.He said he will be staying in Saratoga to saddle his horses in the Diana.“It was a tough decision,” he said. “I have some good horses running (at Monmouth).”You could say the same thing about the horses he has running at the Spa. Doesn't Look Like Journalism Is Coming Back To SaratogaFor now, Journalism (Curlin) is staying home.The popular colt will make the third start of his 4-year-old season Saturday in the $300,000 GII San Diego Handicap at Del Mar in California.Last month, Journalism finished third in the GI Met Mile at Saratoga and trainer Michael McCarthy had said before that race that he could bring him back to Saratoga for a race this summer, perhaps the $1 million GI Whitney Stakes Aug. 8.McCarthy said Journalism ran “respectable” in the Met Mile, which was won by Nysos (Nyquist).“We have a home game,” McCarthy said by phone from Del Mar, his summer base in California about the San Diego. “The horse has been on the road just about every time he has run for the past year and a half. Thought we would go ahead and start off right here at Del Mar and see where it takes us for the summer. Whatever race he runs after (the San Diego) remains to be seen.”Journalism | Sarah AndrewJockey Umberto Rispoli, who rode Journalism in nine of his first 10 starts, will ride him in the San Diego. Jose Ortiz had the mount for Journalism's last three races but is riding in Saratoga Saturday.The San Diego is a prep for the $1 million GI Pacific Classic at Del Mar Aug. 22. Journalism finished second behind Fierceness (City of Light) in last year's Pacific Classic.Journalism, owned by Aron Wellman's Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, the Coolmore partners Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor and Derrick Smith and Bridlewood Farm, Don Alberto Stable and Elayne Stables Five, LLC, has two third place finishes in his two starts this year.Before the Met Mile, he was third in the GII Oaklawn Handicap. In 13 career starts, Journalism has six wins, three seconds and three thirds. He failed to hit the board in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Classic, when he finished fourth.In his only other start at Saratoga, Journalism was second in the 2025 GI Belmont Stakes behind Sovereignty (Into Mischief).McCarthy said he does not have any horses in his barn that are currently being pointed to a trip to Saratoga this summer.“I would have liked to have shipped them all to Saratoga to be honest with you,” he said. “Someday, that will happen. There are a couple spots we thought about … I obviously have a great deal of affection for Saratoga. I would like a (Saratoga) Grade I on my resume.”McCarthy was an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, who is based in Saratoga every summer, for 11 years before going out on his own in 2014. 'Skippy's Year Already Made, But Looking For MoreThe other half of trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.'s senior citizen duo is running Saturday.Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator) is still doing it for the barn, just as stablemate White Abarrio (Race Day) is. Both horses are competing at a high level at the age of seven.Owned by David Alonso, Skippylongstocking is the 3-2 morning-line second choice in Saturday's $350,000 GIII Monmouth Cup Stakes at Monmouth Park. Joseph had thought about running Skippy in the $1 million GI Whitney Stakes at Saratoga Aug. 8, but decided a trip to the Jersey Shore fit his schedule better.Skippylongstocking | Sarah AndrewThe morning-line favorite is the formidable Knightsbridge (Nyquist), who is 7-5 for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott.“He really has already make his year,” Joseph said about Skippylongstocking outside his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. “He has had a great year so far.”Indeed, he has.Skippylongstocking has won two of three starts this year, the biggest being the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park Jan. 24. He followed that with a victory in the GIII Essex Handicap at Oaklawn Park Mar. 21 and a second in the GII Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 1.One of the main reasons to take the road trip to Jersey is that Joseph has his eyes on the $1 million GII Charles Town Classic in West Virginia Aug. 28.Skippylongstocking has run in the 1 1/8-mile, three turn Charles Town Classic three times in his career. He finished eighth last year and won it in 2023 and 2024.“Why not go back to Charles Town?” Joseph said. “We will get a little break after Monmouth, and he has run well at Charles Town. The post Saratoga Notebook, Presented by NYRABets, No One Has Dominated Diana More Than Brown appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.