Champion mares Beholder, Untapable deliver foals

Eclipse Award champions Beholder and Untapable have each safely delivered their most recent foals, bolstering the books of young stallions in which their respective owners have vested interests.

Four-time Eclipse heroine Beholder delivered a filly by Bolt d’Oro early Friday morning at Spendthrift Farm. Grade 1 winner Bolt d’Oro, who stands at Spendthrift, is represented by his first yearlings this year.

Beholder won 11 Grade 1 races during a five-year career for Spendthrift, including the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, 2013 and 2016 editions of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, and the 2015 Pacific Classic over males. The Henny Hughes mare eventually retired with more than $6.1 million in earnings. The mare’s first foal is the 3-year-old Uncle Mo colt Q B One, who has logged several works for trainer Richard Mandella. He worked most recently on Jan. 16 at Santa Anita for Mandella, who trained his dam. Beholder is also the dam of the 2-year-old Curlin filly Karin With an I and the yearling War Front filly Teena Ella.

Untapable, the Eclipse champion 3-year-old filly of 2014, delivered a Gun Runner colt on Saturday night, the anniversary of her own birth, on Feb. 13, 2011. This is the first foal by a U.S. stallion for the Tapit mare, who has unnamed 3-year-old and 2-year-old colts by Cartier European Horse of the Year Frankel. Gun Runner, the 2017 Horse of the Year, stands at Three Chimneys Farm for that operation and co-owner Winchell Thoroughbreds, which bred and owns Untapable. The champion’s first foals will race this year.

Untapable earned more than $3.9 million and won five Grade 1 races, highlighted by the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff in her championship campaign.

The respective 2021 breeding plans for Beholder and Untapable have not yet been announced.