Beholder to Visit Bolt dOro in 2020
Spendthrift Farm's four-time champion and three-time Breeders' Cup winner Beholder will be bred to Bolt d'Oro in 2020.
Currently, in foal to War Front, Beholder has produced two offspring: a yearling colt by Uncle Mo named Q B One and a weanling filly by Curlin.
Beholder retired from racing in 2016 with 18 wins in 26 starts and earnings of US$6,156,600. She won Eclipse Awards as the outstanding 2yo filly of 2012, 3yo filly of 2013, and older mare of 2015 and 2016.
Bolt d'Oro, who retired to Spendthrift in 2019, covered 214 mares in his first book with a 94% in-foal rate, Spendthrift said in a news release. The son of Medaglia d'Oro was the only 2yo colt of 2017 to win multiple Grade 1 races, scoring back-to-back wins in the Del Mar Futurity and FrontRunner Stakes. In the latter, he earned a 103 Beyer Speed Figure, still the fastest by a 2yo colt since 2014, according to Spendthrift.