Beholder's Curlin Colt Learns the Ropes of the Racetrack

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00:00A son of champions Curlin and Beholder, the colt that was the most expensive yearling

00:07to sell at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga has been one to watch from the get-go.

00:10But how's he doing now that he's started his training?

00:13We stopped by Eddie Wood's stable to find out.

00:17It's nice to have the most expensive yearling in the world.

00:22It's pretty cool to have that.

00:24We've had a lot of expensive horses.

00:26We haven't had a $4 million one here before.

00:28It's the most expensive bought horse we've ever had on the farm.

00:31So it's pretty cool.

00:32He came in a little while ago, a pretty straightforward kind of horse.

00:37We let him settle in, we went ahead and started breaking him.

00:40That went well.

00:41And we've taken him through the paces slowly, he's now been galloping on the track about

00:45three weeks.

00:46Well, he's a lovely looking horse, you know, ugly horses don't bring $4 million.

00:52He's similar to what the Curlins are from a colour point of view, and he'd be a little

00:57bit more on it than a lot of the Curlins.

01:00He was a little wiry one day in public.

01:04Everyone just thinks that's the way they are, and it's not always the case.

01:07You know, he's a good feeling horse, and he moves well, and he behaves himself well and

01:12handles well.

01:13He's good in traffic and a pretty straightforward kind of coach.

01:17But right now he's jogging about half a mile, and he's cantered in a mile.

01:22And we'll kind of keep it at that for a while.

01:25We're probably going to be giving him a little bit of a break here after a while just to

01:28get over the breaking process, and it's not a horse that's going to be running four and

01:31a half or five furlings or anything like that.

01:33He won't run probably Delmar or something.

01:36So there's, you know, you can put a lot of unnecessary miles on him.

01:41And so we'll just give him a chance to grow up and get over being broken and being a horse.