Beholder's First Foal to Debut Dec. 26 at Santa Anita

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Photo: Spendthrift Farm/Autry Graham photo
Q B One as a foal with Beholder at Spendthrift Farm

Q B One, the first foal out of champion Beholder , debuts Dec. 26 in a 6 1/2-furlong, $67,000 maiden test slotted as the fourth race on opening day of the winter/spring at Santa Anita Park.

Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella sends the 3-year-old colt by Uncle Mo   out against six other rivals with Kyle Frey in the irons. Owner Spendthrift Farm bred the dark bay colt out of Beholder, a four-time Eclipse Award winner.

Beholder, a daughter of Henny Hughes  out of the blue hen mare Leslie's Lady , is a half sister to grade 1 winners and stallions Into Mischief   and Mendelssohn  . She bankrolled over $6 million during her five-year career on the dirt with Mandella, who saw her through all of her victories. The California heiress notably captured 11 grade 1s and compiled an 18-6-0 record in 26 starts, also for owner Spendthrift Farm.

Beholder's other foals include a 2-year-old filly by Curlin   named Karin With an I; Teena Ella, a yearling filly by War Front  , and a filly by Bolt d'Oro   born earlier this year. She was bred back to Curlin for 2022.

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"I've had him for a bit and he's had some minor problems," Mandella told Santa Anita publicity of Q B One. "So he was sent out and came back, but he's doing well now.

"He trains good and I think racing will make him better but I don't know that his mind is really on it yet. We'll get a race into him and I'd expect going short he'll probably settle back and finish well, getting him started for better things down the road."

Beholder ran fourth in her unveiling before becoming the first horse since 1976 to win a grade 1 race at ages 2, 3, 4, and 5, and being one of only two horses to ever win three Breeders' Cup races.

Asked about similarities between Q B One and his famous mother, Mandella responded with a typical quip.

"He has a good appetite," he said.

OSER: Q B One Progresses to First Timed Work

Pricey opposition in Sunday's fourth race includes two debuting Baffert trainees. The rail-drawn Hopkins races for SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Golconda Stable, Siena Farm, and Robert Masterson. The group picked up the Quality Road   colt from the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $900,000 from breeder Nursery Place. Baffert's other starter, Shaaz, runs for Michael Lund Petersen, who picked up the son of Uncle Mo through agent Donato Lanni from Pike Racing's consignment the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $1.1 million, the top price of the sale.