Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Two-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder and Candy Boy were among those putting in Saturday workouts at Santa Anita Park.<\/p>\n
Trained by Richard Mandella, Beholder went seven furlongs in 1:23.80 under Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith.<\/p>\n
“She galloped out a mile in (one) 38 and looked really good,” Mandella said of the defending Distaff favorite. “She’ll have another work; I don’t know when or how long, but it won’t be like this.”<\/p>\n
Beholder, champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 and last year’s champion 3-year- old filly, bounced back from a disappointing fourth in the Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park in June to win her second straight Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 27 at Santa Anita.<\/p>\n
Owned by Spendthrift Farm, Beholder is expected to face last year’s Distaff runner-up Close Hatches in the 1 1\/8-mile race along with leading 3-year-old filly Untapable.<\/p>\n
Candy Boy, trained by John Sadler, worked six furlongs under Corey Nakatani 1:10.40 in preparation for the Classic.<\/p>\n
“He worked good. He worked in company and he got a fast three-quarters. We’ll decide by tomorrow (whether to pre-enter on Monday),” Sadler said.<\/p>\n
Sprint contender Private Zone, two-time winner of the Vosburgh, worked six furlongs in 1:09.40 with his regular rider Martin Pedroza.<\/p>\n
“He went good, but a little faster than I wanted him to go,” trainer Alfredo Velazquez said. “He’ll have one more breeze next Saturday. Then he’ll be ready for the money.”<\/p>\n
Rich Tapestry, in from Hong Kong, worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 with exercise rider Vincent Sit aboard. Trained by Michael Chang, Rich Tapestry upset Goldencents by a nose in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship in his American debut on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n
“He went exactly according to plan,” said trainer Leonard Powell, at whose barn the 6-year-old gelding is residing until Chang returns from his Hong Kong base on Oct. 26. “We wanted to him to start easy and have a strong finish behind another horse (Romar Success). He did it very easily and the horse is pretty fit now, so from here on it’s about maintenance and keeping him happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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