Richard Mandella

Del Mar Stable Notes: Beholder, Songbird and Nyquist Work [Replay]

IT’S A WORKMANLIKE WORK FOR CHAMPION BEHOLDER Champion mare Beholder went through a solid workout Sunday morning covering seven furlongs in company in 1:27 under gray skies with the Hall […]

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Friday Start Bodes Fantastic for Del Mar’s 77th Summer

TGIF. Thank God It’s Friday. Excuse Del Mar Thoroughbred Club racing fans if they add a rider to that popular rallying cry to festivities. Make it Thank God It’s Friday, […] Read More

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Santa Anita Stable Notes: Songbird Breezes for East Coast Tour

Superstar filly Songbird, who reels off fractions with the rhythmical precision of a metronome, worked six furlongs on Santa Anita’s main track Saturday morning in 1:13.40, breezing, as the undefeated […] Read More

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Santa Anita Stable Notes: Melatonin Set for Gold Cup

Santa Anita Handicap winner Melatonin, who worked five furlongs Tuesday in a bullet 1:11.80, is on course for the Grade I, $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita at 1 ¼ […] Read More

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Champion Beholder Cruises in G1 Vanity Mile for Eighth Consecutive Win

ARCADIA, Calif. (June 4, 2016)—There is simply no stopping the mighty Beholder. With three Eclipse Awards and a pair of Breeders’ Cup victories, she is already considered one the game’s […] Read More

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Santa Anita Stable Notes: Champion Beholder is Bigger, Bolder, Better

Gary Stevens has ridden Beholder 11 times, winning 10, the last six in a row, all 10 of the victories coming in graded stakes, six of them Grade I’s. Next up: […] Read More

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Mandella Contemplates Beholder’s 22nd Career Start Saturday in G1 Vanity Mile

ARCADIA, Calif. (June 2, 2016)—When the mighty Beholder finally calls it a day as a racehorse, she will soon join her Hall of Fame trainer, Richard Mandella in racing’s most […] Read More

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Champion Beholder Heads G1, $400,000 Vanity Mile; Stellar Wind, Taris Look to Upset

ARCADIA, Calif. (June 1, 2016)—With a Hall of Fame resume that already places her among racing’s all-time great distaffers, B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm’s Beholder heads an outstanding field of […] Read More

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Champion Beholder Returns to Win G3, $100,000 Adoration

ARCADIA, Calif. (May 8, 2016)—Idle since Sept. 26 and the prohibitive 1-9 favorite, Spendthrift Farm’s Beholder made short work of five rivals in taking Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Adoration Stakes […] Read More

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Santa Anita Stable Notes: Beholder Drills for Adoration Stakes on Sunday

Three-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder blew out three furlongs Wednesday morning in 37.60 as she prepares for her 2016 debut at age six in Sunday’s Grade III, $100,000 Adoration Stakes for […] Read More