beholder out of breeders cup.

Wiz - do you think she'll be retired?

Two-Time Champion Beholder Out of BC Distaff
By Jack Shinar
Bloodhorse

Spendthrift Farm's two-time champion Beholder spiked a temperature of 104 degrees the morning of Oct. 19 and will not be able to defend her title in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park, trainer Richard Mandella said.

"She had a nice work yesterday and seemed to be doing OK, but when we got to the barn this morning she was showing a temperature of 102 degrees. It got up to 104. We've treated her with penicillin and the temperature has already started to go down.

"We think she's going to be alright," the Hall of Fame trainer added. "But she's out of the race."

Beholder went seven furlongs Oct. 18 at Santa Anita, starting behind two workmates, in a bullet 1:23 4/5 under Mike Smith.

The 4-year-old daughter of Henny Hughes would have likely been favored to successfully repeat her Distaff victory of last year, which followed a triumph in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I). A 10-time winner from 15 starts with earnings of $3,368,300, she won Eclipse Awards in 2012 as outstanding juvenile filly and in 2013 as outstanding 3-year-old filly.

Beholder, out of the Tricky Creek mare Leslie's Lady, is scheduled to be sold at the Fasig-Tipton November sale.

She has had a difficult year, bruising a pastern in the Ogden Phipps Stakes (gr. I) in her second start of the season at Belmont Park June 7. She returned from the injury with a victory in the Zenyatta Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita Sept. 28 and had been training forwardly for her next Breeders' Cup assault.