SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- "It will be," trainer Chad Brown told reporter Tim Wilkin as they stood outside his barn near the Oklahoma oval, "like David versus Goliath." The sixth day of the Saratoga season, and already members of the press were tallying up victories and figuring out percentages, wondering if the 31-year-old native of Mechanicville, N.Y., could hold fast to a lead in the standings. Against the record-setting, Eclipse Award-winning, future Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher? Ah, they figured, the kid had no chance. Wilkin wrote as much in his assessment of the situation, published online in the Albany Times Union's technologically-advanced replacement for a newspaper column (the "Talkin' Horses" blog). Then Chad Brown kept on winning. Yesterday, in the third race with High Stakes Player. Today, in the first with Unaccountable. Now it's the end of the eighth day of racing at Saratoga and it's Brown up by one, 6-5. The young trainer saddles 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Maram in Saturday's Grade 1 Diana, another case of facing the giants. They'll take on the likes of two-time Diana winner and 2008 divisional champion Forever Together; Proviso, who beat the boys two starts back; and Phola, second to Proviso in Belmont's Just a Game on Belmont Stakes day, June 5. If there's a plus for Maram going into the turf event, it's her 2-for-2 record on the turf at Saratoga; she broke her maiden here on Aug. 25, 2008, and won the John Hettinger Stakes in 2009. Brown surprised the Daily Racing Form with his decision to enter Maram in the 1 1/8-mile Diana ("Maram Late Addition to Diana Cast," read Mike Welsch's July 28 headline), but the timing of things just felt right. "I just go by feel and how she's doing and seeing who is going in there," he said. "The field is solid but there's not a lot of horses in there and I figured she's 2-for-2 in Saratoga, which is a big thing. She's doing really well, and she's really versatile. When she needs a break I give her one. She tells me when she's ready and I kind of just listen to her. When she's ready to run, I run her. And right now she's telling me she wants to run." He shipped the high-strung filly, a 4-year-old daughter of Sahm (Mr. Prospector), in from Belmont this morning. "She's real high strung and she's doing so well down there, we're going to bring her in right on top of the race," he said. "We've done that with a couple starters at the beginning of the meet that have won so it seems like we have a system down." With more trips to the winner's circle than the mega-stable he has to contend with, it looks like that system is working quite well for Chad Brown. For more comprehensive information on horse racing, visit Helloracefans.com and Horseracingnation.com. You can follow Claire Novak on Facebook and Twitter at @ClaireNovak.