Beholder getting some downtime

DEL MAR, Calif. – Beholder, scratched from the Breeders’ Cup Classic two days before the race when she bled following a gallop at Keeneland, is getting some downtime away from the track and is not expected to rejoin trainer Richard Mandella’s barn at Santa Anita until early January.

Mandella said Beholder has been turned out at a local layup facility run by Julie Adair-Stack, where Beholder has spent time after prior setbacks.

“Then she’s going to go to Peacefield,” Mandella said, referring to a farm in Temecula, Calif., “and she’ll be out in a grass paddock there for about four weeks. Then she’ll go back to Julie’s and get ridden a couple of weeks before she comes back to me.”

Beholder has won two Eclipse Awards and is favored to win a third this year as champion older female.