Alysheba Stakes Showdown: Fierceness, Locked to Battle

Alysheba Stakes Showdown: Fierceness, Locked to Battle

This year’s $750,000 Alysheba Stakes (G2) drew a field of six, but owner Mike Repole is billing the Kentucky Oaks day undercard race at Churchill Downs as “a heavyweight title fight” between two multiple grade 1 winners—his Fierceness  and Todd Pletcher stablemate Locked . No one is arguing with him. “They’re both two super horses and…

Netflix Series Puts Spotlight on Racing Personalities

Netflix Series Puts Spotlight on Racing Personalities

Halfway through the third episode of “Race for the Crown,” a coyote makes an appearance above the hillside course at Santa Anita Park. He’s scruffy and furtive, your standard issue scavenger, but artfully rendered in the super slo-mo camera work that is de rigueur in the modern sports docudrama. His screen time lasts barely seconds,…

C2 Racing Stable Hopes for Derby Surprise With Neoequos

C2 Racing Stable Hopes for Derby Surprise With Neoequos

C2 Racing Stable may have left Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) winner White Abarrio  behind in South Florida to continue training toward the June 7 Metropolitan Handicap (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, but C2, a partnership of brothers Mark and Clint Cornett, is still coming out firing this week at Churchill Downs. In upcoming graded stakes…

Beach Bomb Vies for Third Straight in Sheepshead Bay

Beach Bomb Vies for Third Straight in Sheepshead Bay

Multiple graded stakes winner Beach Bomb  ships to Aqueduct Racetrack for the $175,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes (G3T) May 2. The 5-year-old mare is after her third consecutive graded stakes victory this season, owning a 2-1-1 record in five starts since coming to the United States last summer. The 1 3/8-mile race features a field of five…