Sea Calisi Aims for Sheepshead Bay Repeat

Grade I winner Sea Calisi will try to win the $200,000 Sheepshead Bay Stakes (G2T) a second straight year when she faces an expected six other fillies and mares, including Suffused, in the 1 3/8-mile turf test May 6 at Belmont Park.

Saturday's race will mark the seasonal debut for Martin Schwartz's Sea Calisi, who also opened her 4-year-old season in last year's Sheepshead Bay, where the daughter of Youmzain earned a 2 1/2-length victory. That race was her North American debut, and she went on to win the Beverly D. Stakes (G1T) last summer for her trainer Chad Brown.

Brown will try to earn his third straight Sheepshead Bay victory as he won the 2015 edition with Rosalind.

While 8-5 morning-line favorite Sea Calisi will be making her seasonal debut, Juddmonte Farms homebred Suffused will try for her third graded stakes win in as many starts this season after taking the La Prevoyante and The Very One stakes (both G3T) at Gulfstream Park. The 5-year-old daughter of Champs Elysees is trained by Racing Hall of Famer Bill Mott, who has won the Sheepshead Bay four previous times, most recently in 2014 with Juddmonte's Riposte.

Sheepshead Bay S. (G2T)

Belmont Park, Saturday, May 06, 2017, Race 4

• 1 3/8m
• Turf
• $200,000
• 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 2:25 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Achnaha (IRE)	Trevor McCarthy	116	George Weaver	15/1
2	2Zipessa (KY)	Mitchell Murrill	120	Michael Stidham	7/2
3	3Apple Betty (IRE)	Paco Lopez	116	Claude R. McGaughey III	5/1
4	4Guilty Twelve (KY)	Manuel Franco	116	H. Graham Motion	15/1
5	5Voila La Victoire (IRE)	Christopher P. DeCarlo	116	Thomas Albertrani	30/1
6	6Suffused (GB)	Kendrick Carmouche	120	William I. Mott	5/2
7	7Sea Calisi (FR)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	120	Chad C. Brown	8/5