Beach Bomb Vies for Third Straight in Sheepshead Bay

Multiple graded stakes winner Beach Bomb (SAF) 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 fillies and mares aged 4 and up. Beach Bomb was most recently seen winning the Orchid Stakes (G3T) at Gulfstream Park March 29 for trainer Graham Motion and owner Cayton Park Stud. Javier Castellano will be in the irons. LSU Stables' La Mehana (FR) ran third in both of her last starts behind Beach Bomb in the Orchid Stakes and the 1 3/8-mile The Very One Stakes (G3T) March 1. The Christophe Clement trainee finished third in this race last year behind Royalty Interest (FR). Kendrick Carmouche will ride. Clemente also sends out Bellezza (IRE) who makes her first start stateside for owner Moyglare Stud Farm. Shug McGaughey sends out the Stuart Janney III-owned Silvology, runner-up to Beach Bomb in the Orchid, and Barry Schwartz's Whatlovelookslike rounds out the field. Linda Rice has Amanda's Folly as a main-track-only entrant.