Santa Anita notes: Beholder, She's a Tiger get back to work

ARCADIA, Calif. - The 2013 female champions Beholder and She’s a Tiger have returned to Santa Anita after wintertime breaks.

Beholder, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2013, arrived at trainer Richard Mandella’s stable on Sunday, having been in light training with Julie Adair-Stack at a nearby farm.

Mandella said he does not have an immediate race goal for Beholder, who won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in her last start on Nov. 1.

“She’s already galloped a couple of days,” he said.

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She’s a Tiger, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2013, arrived at trainer Jeff Bonde’s stable last Saturday. She’s a Tiger spent recent months at the Pegasus Training Center in Washington, Bonde said.

She’s a Tiger finished first in the BC Juvenile Fillies on Nov. 2, but was disqualified and placed second for causing interference in the stretch. Ria Antonia was promoted from second to first.

Yakteen stable back to normal

Trainer Tim Yakteen’s stable has returned to normal activity after two horses tested positive for equine herpesvirus in January.

The horses that tested positive – Santa Fe Belle and Easy Ten – are at the San Luis Rey Downs equine clinic and are showing signs of recovery, Yakteen said. Santa Fe Belle has had two negative swabs for EHV-1, and will be released to a local farm in coming days, the trainer said. Easy Ten has had one negative swab, and would be released if the second swab is negative.

Yakteen said that both horses could return to racing later this year.

Yakteen, who trained 2013 champion sprinter Points Offthebench, did not have a starter in late January because of the EHV-1 outbreak in his stable. He was scheduled to start Mark of a Gem in an allowance race for sprinters on Thursday.

◗ Jockey Joel Rosario is scheduled to ride Kobe’s Back in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes here Feb. 16, according to his agent, Ron Anderson.