Trainer Chad Brown, a native of Mechanicville, enjoyed a breakout meet at his hometown track this summer, finishing third in the Saratoga standings behind perennial Spa powers Todd Pletcher and Linda Rice.

Brown is still looking for his first win of the Belmont Fall Championship meet, which opened Sept. 11, but today he sends out Yawkey Way, one of the runners who helped fuel his success at Saratoga.

Yawkey Way, a 2-year-old daughter of Grand Slam, is the favorite in today's Friendly Beauty Stakes, an overnight for statebred fillies going six furlongs. Yawkey Way stamped herself as a filly to watch by winning her first two career starts at Saratoga, including an overnight stake, by a combined 9 1/4 lengths.

Post time for the Friendly Beauty is 4:43 p.m. For more on Yawkey Way and the rival's she'll face today, check out today's Rising Stars column.