Pedigree Query

Top distaff runners, Beholder and Stellar Wind face each other for the 2nd time in their careers Saturday at Del Mar. It's a small field, but a most important race going forward in the distaff division. Below are the entries and the pp's. TJ

8th Race. (C9) STAKES
Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (Grade I)
$300,000 Guaranteed
Purse $300,000 Guaranteed One Mile And One Sixteenth
FOR FILLIES AND MARES, THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD.
1 BEHOLDER (L) '10 M 123 Stevens, G Spendthrift Farm, LLC Mandella, Richard
2 STELLAR WIND (L) '12 F 121 Espinoza, V Hronis Racing, LLC Sadler, John
3 THE DREAM (CHI) '12 F 119 Garcia, M Don Alberto Stable Hollendorfer, Jerry
4 OFF THE ROAD (BRZ) (L) '11 M 119 Pedroza, M Quick Road Stable Mandella, Richard
5 DIVINA COMEDIA (FR) (L) '11 M 119 Talamo, J Marsha Naify Callaghan, Simon

Click on Beholder: http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/briswatc ... mmary.html

Why is Off The Road in this race? Was he making sure it was a big enough field? Like always I will be cheering for Beholder, Stellar Wind just picked a bad year to be around!

Cree wrote:Why is Off The Road in this race? Was he making sure it was a big enough field? Like always I will be cheering for Beholder, Stellar Wind just picked a bad year to be around!

Hi Cree,
I think Mandella put Off The Road in there to assure an honest pace and give Beholder something to run at? TJ

Bad day for the favorites...Here's the results:
Stellar Wind
Beholder
Davina Camedia
Off The Road

Nice win by Stellar Wind, and a nice run by Beholder. She can't win 'em all, and Stellar Wind has proven she is a classy mare.

Here's the replay. TJ
http://www1.drf.com/displayVideo.do?tra ... ountry=USA