Beholder All Class in Easy Hirsch Score
Aug 1, 2015 21:27:43 GMT -5
Post by Evelyn on Aug 1, 2015 21:27:43 GMT -5
I'm so glad she won. It wasn't much of a field so she did it easily! And she might take on the boys in the Pac Classic! Doubt that Am P will be in that so she has a good chance.
Beholder All Class in Easy Hirsch Score
By Jeremy Balan
BloodHorse
There's one simple phrase to describe two-time champion Beholder—top-class.
Spendthrift Farm's 5-year-old mare again showed her talent in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (gr. I) at Del Mar Aug. 1, toying with the field to win by seven lengths without feeling the whip from Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens.
It was the seventh grade I victory of her 18-race career and she's now won a top-level event in every year she's raced—at ages 2, 3, 4, and now 5.
The daughter of Henny Hughes stalked the early pace as My Sweet Addiction led through a quarter-mile in :23.91. Honey Ride took over the lead to run a half-mile in :47.86, as the champion advanced and eventually took command in the final turn after six furlongs in 1:11.86.
Still unmoving, Stevens glanced back exiting the turn, opened the Richard Mandella trainee up, and glided away. Longshot Yahilwa, at odds of 25-1, was a far-back second, followed by grade I winner Warren's Veneda 4 1/2 lengths back in third. Beholder hit the wire 1:43.81 for the 1 1/16 miles on dirt labeled fast.
After the race, Mandella also dropped a bombshell. Beholder may run against the boys in the $1 million Pacific Classic (gr. I) Aug. 22 at Del Mar.
"She's done so much for us, we need to consider the most likely scenario is to be conservative and wait for the Zenyatta (Stakes Sept. 26 at Santa Anita Park), but we may look at the Pacific Classic here in three weeks if she looks strong enough," Mandella said.
My Sweet Addiction tired to fourth, followed by Honey Ride, My Monet, Legacy, and Thegirlinthatsong, to complete the order of finish. Gusto Dolce scratched.
Bred in Kentucky by Clarkland Farm, out of the Tricky Creek mare Leslie's Lady, Beholder now has $3,656,600 in earnings.
Beholder All Class in Easy Hirsch Score
By Jeremy Balan
BloodHorse
There's one simple phrase to describe two-time champion Beholder—top-class.
Spendthrift Farm's 5-year-old mare again showed her talent in the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (gr. I) at Del Mar Aug. 1, toying with the field to win by seven lengths without feeling the whip from Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens.
It was the seventh grade I victory of her 18-race career and she's now won a top-level event in every year she's raced—at ages 2, 3, 4, and now 5.
The daughter of Henny Hughes stalked the early pace as My Sweet Addiction led through a quarter-mile in :23.91. Honey Ride took over the lead to run a half-mile in :47.86, as the champion advanced and eventually took command in the final turn after six furlongs in 1:11.86.
Still unmoving, Stevens glanced back exiting the turn, opened the Richard Mandella trainee up, and glided away. Longshot Yahilwa, at odds of 25-1, was a far-back second, followed by grade I winner Warren's Veneda 4 1/2 lengths back in third. Beholder hit the wire 1:43.81 for the 1 1/16 miles on dirt labeled fast.
After the race, Mandella also dropped a bombshell. Beholder may run against the boys in the $1 million Pacific Classic (gr. I) Aug. 22 at Del Mar.
"She's done so much for us, we need to consider the most likely scenario is to be conservative and wait for the Zenyatta (Stakes Sept. 26 at Santa Anita Park), but we may look at the Pacific Classic here in three weeks if she looks strong enough," Mandella said.
My Sweet Addiction tired to fourth, followed by Honey Ride, My Monet, Legacy, and Thegirlinthatsong, to complete the order of finish. Gusto Dolce scratched.
Bred in Kentucky by Clarkland Farm, out of the Tricky Creek mare Leslie's Lady, Beholder now has $3,656,600 in earnings.