Arcadia, CA (SportsNetwork.com) – Champion mare Beholder is getting ever closer to making her 5-year-old debut after missing last year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff with an illness.<\/p>\n
Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella indicated Thursday that the two-time Eclipse Award winner is likely to start in the $350,000 Madison Stakes at seven furlongs at Keeneland on April 4.<\/p>\n
“She’s six to eight weeks away,” Mandella said. “The Madison is the race we’re considering.”<\/p>\n
Beholder, owned by Spendthrift Farm, had her first workout of the year Tuesday when she covered three furlongs in 36.80 seconds.<\/p>\n
She had spiked a fever in October that forced her to be withdrawn from defending her title in last year’s Distaff.<\/p>\n
Beholder was champion 2-year-old filly of 2012 and 2013 champion 3-year-old filly. She won her second straight Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 27 at Santa Anita. She won the 2013 Distaff by 4 1\/4 lengths over Close Hatches, a finalist for 2014 champion Older Female.<\/p>\n
Beholder has won 10 of 15 starts, including the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, for $3,368,300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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