Beholder earns one-week vacation

ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder, the two-time champion who won her 2014 debut in the Santa Lucia Stakes at Santa Anita last Sunday, is being given a weeklong vacation at a local farm, trainer Richard Mandella said.

Mandella said Beholder has been sent to Julie Adair’s Southern California farm for a week of rest and is expected to return to his stable in the Santa Anita barn area next week. The break will not disrupt plans to start Beholder in the $1 million Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park on June 7, he said.

“It’s just a week,” Mandella said. “It won’t interfere with anything. She can let down, rest, and relax a little bit. She will be ridden while she is there. She’ll get a couple of days off, and they’ll ride for a few days. It could do her some good.”

Beholder, 4, was the champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 and champion 3-year-old filly of 2013. Owned by B. Wayne Hughes, Beholder has won 9 of 13 starts and $3,123,300. The Santa Lucia Stakes was her first start since a win in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff here last November.