Beholder breezes slow, easy three furlongs
DEL MAR, Calif. – The two-time champion Beholder worked three furlongs in 39.60 seconds Friday at Del Mar, her first significant exercise since finishing fourth in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park on June 7.
Beholder emerged from that race with a pastern injury that required several weeks to heal. On Friday, trainer Richard Mandella said Beholder is unlikely to run during the current Del Mar meeting, which ends Sept. 3. She will be pointed for the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27.
Mandella said he timed Beholder in 37 seconds.
“It was an easy three-eighths,” he said. “I don’t know if she’ll make the meeting. She got a little stiff on me when she came back. She’s going well right now.”
Owned by B. Wayne Hughes, Beholder was the champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 and champion 3-year-old filly of 2013.