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Beholder (horse)
Beholder (foaled May 9, 2010) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. She was purchased as a yearling by B. Wayne Hughes of Spendthrift Farm. With an early reputation for being difficult to handle, trainer Richard Mandella worked extensively with the fractious young horse, gradually developing her from a temperamental front-runner into a seasoned veteran who could be placed in a strategic position to best beat her competition. As a two-year-old in 2012, she won three of her five races including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly. In the following season she won five of her seven races, including the Breeders' Cup Distaff. With the Breeders' Cup win, she became the first horse to win both the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Distaff in consecutive years, and concluded her three-year old season by being named American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. After a four-year-old season plagued by injuries and illness, with a single graded stakes win in three attempts, she returned to form as a five-year-old, with multiple stakes wins and becoming the first filly or mare to win the Pacific Classic. In doing so, she became the first horse since 1976, male or female, to win Grade 1 stakes races at age 2, 3, 4 and 5.
==Background==
Beholder is a bay mare with no white markings, bred by the Clarkland Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.〔 She was sired by Henny Hughes, a sprinter whose biggest wins came in the King's Bishop Stakes and Vosburgh Stakes in 2006. Beholder's dam, Leslie's Lady, was a descendant of the broodmare Last Bird, making her a distant relative of the Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another. Leslie's Lady won five races out of 28 starts, including the listed Hoosier Debutante Stakes in 1998. Beholder's older half-brother, Into Mischief (sired by Harlan's Holiday), won the 2007 CashCall Futurity and the 2008 Damascus Stakes.
As a yearling, Beholder was consigned by the Clarkland Farm to the sale at Keeneland in September 2011, where she was bought for $180,000 by B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm. At age two, the filly was sent into training with the California-based trainer Richard Mandella.〔
Beholder developed a reputation as a "temperamental diva." As a young filly, she was prone to rearing when she got upset, but later turned to bucking.〔 But the people who worked with her every day viewed her differently; her exercise rider, David Nuesch, described her in 2013 as "straightforward", explaining, "she kind of likes it to be her idea and doesn't want to be told too much what to do." Her groom, Ruben Mercado, said she was a "little angel" in the stables, but "all business" on the track. Mandella used earplugs and a hood with ear coverings (colloquially called "earmuffs") to help keep her focused. At one point, he even tried giving her ear buds, but the sound upset her even more. Mandella was described as the "perfect" trainer for her, as he was willing to try different training techniques to keep her from getting in her own way, took the time to figure out her quirks, and learned to anticipate her behavior. The bond and depth of communication between trainer and horse was noted in the press. Mandella's son Gary described Beholder as having an "Alpha Male perspective," explaining "She’s actually dominant, bullyish and head strong. She’s not quirky because she’s worried that something is lurking around the corner. The things that she does that are hard to manage are because she’s tougher than you.”〔 As she aged, her behavior improved and she began to behave like a seasoned veteran. Mandella himself gave credit to the horse: "I’d say she brought me along. I haven‘t brought her along. I’ve just been along for the ride."
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