Fierceness And Mindframe Met Mile Match Still On The Table

Fierceness In Key Workout Ahead Of Met Mile Target

The potential 2025 Met Mile runners are starting to take shape with one of the big fancies Fierceness having a workout at the Oklahoma training track (Saratoga Springs, NY) this week – which was the third time the Todd Pletcher horse had been in work since winning the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs in early May. Fierceness Worked Over Five Furlongs at Oklahoma Training Track As Met Mile Preparation Continues  Over the last three year…

Fierceness And Mindframe Met Mile Match Still On The Table

With nothing off the table, MGISW Fierceness (City of Light) could face stablemate GISW Mindframe (Constitution) in next month's GI Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap, according to trainer Todd Pletcher. Fierceness worked Thursday over Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma dirt training track in preparation for what is shaping up to be a titanic race during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. The champion colt breezed in compa…

Pletcher updates on Fierceness, Mindframe, other top runners

Multiple Grade 1-winner Fierceness worked Thursday over Saratoga’s Oklahoma dirt training track in preparation for the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap on June 7. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, the 4-year-old City of Light colt breezed in company with graded-stakes-placed Tuscan Sky through a half-mile in 49.85 seconds, according to New York Racing Association  clockers. It marked the pair’s second work together in as many week…

Fierceness works for Met Mile; Journalism jogs after Preakness win

Todd Pletcher was among the trainers dodging rain drops Thursday while trying to figure out his best strategy for breezing the Met Mile-bound Fierceness. Pletcher ultimately sent him out about 15 minutes after White Abarrio worked a quick five furlongs on the main track, albeit over the back-raked Oklahoma training track.