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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BEHOLDER SHINES BRIGHTEST IN DISTAFF CLASSIC REMATCH AT SANTA ANITA While the pre-race hype focused squarely on the The top three finishers in last year=s GI Breeders= Cup rematch between two-time GI Breeders= Cup Distaff Classic, plus the race=s beaten favorite, are among the heroine Royal Delta 11 runners set to line up in today=s rewewal of the (Empire Maker) and GI 1 1/4-mile race. Defending champion Fort Larned Kentucky Oaks victoress (E Dubai)--who will take up stud duties at Adena Princess of Sylmar Springs next year (story p23)- (Majestic Warrior), it was -has had an up-and-down 2012 GI Breeders= Cup 2013, but trainer Ian Wilkes Juvenile Fillies champion has found himself in demand Beholder (Henny Hughes) this week at Santa Anita as striding home first as the the 5-year-old prepares for a sun set on day one of second Classic. championship weekend at AI have done a lot more Santa Anita Friday. Beholder interviews this year,@ Wilkes Beholder, who became Horsephotos said. ALast year, we were way the first Juvenile Fillies under the radar.@ Of his winner to return to take the Distaff, gave veteran rider charge s chances today, = Game on Dude Gary Stevens his ninth career Breeders= Cup win. AI=ve Wilkes added, AWe are good Horsephotos been lucky enough to have many good mares in my years to go here, no excuses.@ of training, but this mare might have to be the best of all,@ Last year=s favorite Game on Dude (Awesome Again) commented winning trainer Richard Mandella, who was will likely be the crowd=s choice again today as he looks saddling his first Distaff starter Friday. Pages3-5 to cap a perfect 2013 campaign. The dark bay gelding was stymied by a slow break in 2012 and came home All Gold Exacta in Dirt Mile only seventh. Recalling last year=s race, Wilkes W C Racing, Dave Kenney and RAP Racing=s acknowledged today=s Classic could be won or lost at Goldencents (Into Mischief) ran them off their feet in the start. AYou can talk about the shape of the race, but the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile Friday, setting swift the most important key to the race is the break,@ Wilkes fractions over the quick Santa Anita surface before said. AWhat if Game On Dude doesn=t break well like he reporting home a convincing 2 3/4-length victor. did last year? What if Moreno doesn=t break well? What Closers Golden Ticket (Speightstown) and Brujo de if we don=t break well? That=s why I will leave it all up Olleros (Brz) (Wild Event) rounded out the exacta and to [jockey] Brian [Hernandez Jr.].@ Cont. p15 trifecta respectively, while favored Verrazano (More Than Ready) settled for fourth after a rough trip. Page6-7 Outstrip Outpaces in Juvenile Turf Godolphin=s Outstrip (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) came flying late to complete a rousing start to Breeders= Cup weekend for the championship meet=s leading rider Mike Smith with a half-length win in the GI Juvenile Turf. Smith also captured the GII Marathon aboard London Bridge (Arch) in the first 2013 Breeders= Cup championship race. AHe=s not a bad little horse, is he?@ asked winning trainer Charlie Appleby. Pages8-9 Chriselliam Makes it a Euro Sweep on the Turf It was another late-running victory for the European contingent as Chriselliam (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) powered home a much-the-best winner of the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. AAbsolutely brilliant,@ trainer Charles Hills said after the win. AI couldn=t be more pleased. She was pretty sensational today.@ It was the second year the Europeans took home both Juvenile Turf races, following Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast) and George Vancouver (Henrythenavigator) in 2012. 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Beholder settled just off the champ while three wide into the turn. Royal Delta yielded her advantage to Authenticity (Quiet American) into the backstretch, but she maintained contact with the pacesetter through an opening half in :46.30 and Beholder was never far off the lead. Royal Delta packed it in with a half-mile to run and Beholder strode up to challenge for the lead after three-quarters in 1:10.28. Gary Stevens barely moved on Beholder and the bay filly took charge turning for home and she effortlessly extended her advantage down the stretch to score by 4 1/4 lengths. AWe trained her this way [to run from off the pace],@ winning trainer Richard Mandella said. AWe=ve just never had to use it before. She=s so naturally fast, you don=t have to train that into her and she=s made the lead so easily in many of her races. Today, she had to come from off of it and she did it--and boy do I love it.@ Gary Stevens, who returned to the saddle in March after an eight-year retirement, added, AShe was a little fractious going into the gate and a little anxious. I was afraid she might over-break, but she settled and broke beautiful. This is the best race she=s ever run. I was hoping that Authenticity would carry the lead a little farther but Beholder moved up nice, went by her easy and then really opened up.@ The Distaff was Stevens= first Breeders= Cup win since taking the GI Mile with War Chant in 2000. Owner B. Wayne Hughes paid tribute to his champion filly. AI think I'm going to quote Pete Carroll who says that you can't be a champion unless you defeat champions. And today, I think we defeated two champions. I sort of second Richard's comments about the gameness of the other owners and the other horses, and I'm glad they came right now, but I was a little nervous before the race.@ Cont. p4 B. Wayne Hughes, Gary Stevens and Richard Mandella celebrate Beholder’s Distaff victory. Horsephotos 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com CLASSIC BLOODLINES... Four Breeders’ Cup Classic contenders by Adena Springs stallions: Game on Dude (G1) & Paynter (G1) by Elite Sire Awesome Again the ONLY Breeders’ Cup Classic champion to sire a Classic champion Mucho Macho Man (G1) by Macho Uno, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion & 1/2 brother to Awesome Again Moreno (G2) by Ghostzapper, Breeders’ Cup Classic champion by Awesome Again ...CLASSIC PERFORMANCE CLASSIC BLOODLINES CLASSIC PERFORMANCE www.AdenaStallions.com | (800) 975-5641 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/2/13 • PAGE 4 of 28 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Beholder was named Eclipse champion 2-year-old filly Friday, Santa Anita after her win in last year=s GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile BREEDERS' CUP DISTAFF-GI, $1,840,000, SAX, 11-1, Fillies.