Beholder

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Beholder (foaled May 9, 2010) is an American Thoroughbred race horse and multiple Eclipse Award winner. She was purchased as a yearling by B. Wayne Hughes of Spendthrift Farm. She had an early reputation for being difficult to handle, but trainer Richard Mandella worked extensively with her, developing her from a temperamental front-runner into a seasoned veteran who could be placed in strategic positions. 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, becoming the first filly or mare to win the Pacific Classic and was voted American Champion Older Dirt Female Horse. 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. In 2016, she extended this achievement by winning the Grade I Vanity Stakes, and in doing so tied the record of John Henry for winning a Grade I race five years in a row. She closed out her career winning the 2016 Breeders' Cup Distaff, prevailing by a nose over Songbird. She received her second Eclipse Award as Champion Older Dirt Female Horse at the end of the year and retired in 2016 having tied Goldikova as one of only two horses to have...