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SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here ALABAMA RIVALS CHASE >LACE= HOME GI TVG Pacific Classic When last seen at Grade I level, Alex and Joann Lieblong=s Embellish the Lace (Super Saver) was thrown to the wolves in the June 27 Mother Goose S. and dueled on a sizzling pace before fading away tamely to BEHOLDER OCEANS THE BEST IN CLASSIC finish a well-beaten ninth behind Include Betty Following Beholder (Henny Hughes)=s victory last time (Include). Undeterred in the GI Clement L. Hirsch S. Aug. 1, the seventh top- and of the mindset level success of her already illustrious career, trainer that the bay filly Richard Mandella seriously upped the ante. The Hall of would appreciate the Famer--the same guy that sent out the top three 10-furlong distance finishers in the 1997 GI Santa Anita H., the same one of Saturday=s that won four Breeders= Cup races in a day in 2003-- GI Alabama S. at suggested that he might point the mare to the GI TVG Saratoga, she was Pacific Classic. Only five females had tried it, with allowed to take her Paseana (Arg)=s fifth-place effort in 1992 the best place, and, well-rated result. But, with a breathtaking move leaving the three- on the engine by furlong pole, the two-time Eclipse Award winner left a Javier Castellano, Embellish the Lace | Adam Coglianese strong field of handicap horses literally in the dust, as Embellish the Lace she streaked home to best stablemate Catch a Flight rewarded her (Arg) (Giant=s Causeway) by 8 1/4 lengths. connections= confidence with a 1 1/4-length defeat of a Not only did Beholder become the first of her gender game I=m A Chatterbox (Munnings). Favored Curalina to win the race, but her margin of victory established a (Curlin) was third. new record for a running of the Pacific Classic on "I didn't expect her to be on the lead but nobody conventional dirt, easily eclipsing the 5 1/2-length went,@ commented Castellano, riding the Alabama success by Skimming in 2000. The final time of winner for the second time in three years (Princess of 1:59.77, without being fully extended, was just 0.66 Sylmar, 2013) and third time overall (Pine Island, seconds off Candy Ride (Arg)=s track record of 1:59.11 2006). AWe put up good numbers all the way, and it established in winning the 2003 Classic over the paid off. I thought there was more speed in the race previous dirt course and is the joint-third fastest but nobody wanted to go. I tried to rate a little bit the winning time in the 25-year history of the race. first turn, but nobody wanted to take it, so I took it. Questions in the immediate aftermath of the win When I asked her a little bit, she took off." Cont. p5 included where to run next? AI=m just going to enjoy this one,@ said Mandella. Beholder prepares to greet her adoring connections following Saturday’s Pacific Classic | Benoit IN THIS ISSUE American Graded Stakes Results Though Beholder (Henny Hughes)’s dazzling effort will remain first and foremost in racing fans’s minds Sunday, it President & Co-Publisher: Barry Weisbord was the nightcap to a full day of graded stakes action. Two [email protected] other horses earned automatic berths to the Breeders’ Cup @barryweisbord Saturday with Big John B (Hard Spun) winning his second consecutive GII Del Mar H. and Appealing Tale Sr. V.P. & Co-Publisher: Sue Finley (Tale of the Cat) capturing the GII Pat O’Brien S. 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FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI PACIFIC CLASSIC Beholder, a $180,000 graduate of the Clarkland Farm consignment at Keeneland four Septembers ago, clinched the first of her two Eclipse Awards with a front-running victory in the 2012 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita and doubled up the following season with a 4 1/4-length defeat of her elders in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff, a field that included the race=s two-time defending champion Royal Delta (A.P. Indy). She faced the starter but three times in 2014, but successfully defended her title in the GI Saturday, Del Mar Zenyatta S. last fall and appeared on track to make it $1 MILLION TVG PACIFIC CLASSIC S.-GI, $1,001,250, back-to-back scores in the Distaff. But illness DMR, 8-22, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m, 1:59.77, ft. intervened, canceling not only a chance for a third 1--BEHOLDER, 119, m, 5, by Henny Hughes Breeders= Cup crown, but also a trip to Kentucky, 1st Dam: Leslie's Lady (SW, $187,014), by where she was catalogued for the Fasig-Tipton Tricky Creek November sale. With just those 15 starts over the 2nd Dam: Crystal Lady, by Stop the Music course of three seasons, the decision was taken to 3rd Dam: One Last Bird, by One for All keep Beholder in training, and given the ease with ($180,000 Ylg '11 KEESEP). O-Spendthrift Farm LLC; which she annexed her three starts this season, it was B-Clarkland Farm (KY); T-Richard E. Mandella; J-Gary time to shoot for the moon and a date with history in L. Stevens. $600,000. Lifetime Record: Ch. 2yo the meet=s marquee race. & 3yo Filly, 19-14-3-0, $4,256,600. *1/2 to Into Pacific Classic cont. p4 Mischief (Harlan=s Holiday), GISW, $597,080. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Bred, Raised, & Sold by Clarkland Farm Shop Clarkland yearlings at Keeneland September 2--Catch a Flight (Arg), 124, h, 5, Giant=s Causeway-- Callaia (Arg), by Lode. O-Haras Santa Maria de Araras; B-Estacion de Montas La Mission S. A. & Tupacireta S.R.L.A.G. (ARG); T-Richard E. Mandella. $200,000. 3--Red Vine, 124, h, 5, Candy Ride (Arg)--Murky Waters, by Storm Creek. ($200,000 Ylg '11 FTSAUG; $290,000 RNA 2yo '12 FTFMAR). O-Jon & Sarah Kelly; B-Alastar Thoroughbred Co. (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $120,000. Ramona Good • (859) 608-1502 XIB Xavier Int’l Bloodstock Recommended Purchase XIB i i ½ sis sells with Four Star Sales at KeeSep - Hip # 2191 i i Margins: 8 1/4, 1, HF. Odds: 2.00, 7.80, 4.60. Also Ran: Hoppertunity, Imperative, Hard Aces, Class Leader, Bailoutbobby, Bayern, Midnight Storm. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.