00:00Beholder and Garrett Gomez!
00:01A lot of times I'm holding her or doing something and I brag.
00:05I say, look at me, I'm holding the best mare ever.
00:07So I do brag about it.
00:10And Beholder and Garrett Gomez have won the greatest cup.
00:22Beholder was probably a really good racehorse because of her intellect.
00:28She obviously has a lot of guts too, and she will.
00:33She won't back down here on the farm when she has something that she wants to do.
00:39She doesn't back down.
00:40I mean, one race each has gobbled up the horses and beat them really easy.
00:45I mean, she just looks like she was exercising.
00:48Beholder and the comeback kid, Gary Stevens, have won the Breeders' Cup Vistas with authority!
00:55My most favorite was the Pacific Classic win in 2015, that she just blew that race away.
01:03When she beat Songbird in the distaff, that was a pretty great race too.
01:09Songbird! Beholder! They are nose to nose!
01:12This race living up to its expected power as they come to the mire!
01:17Their nose is apart! It's Beholder!
01:20I think she got her head down on the mire!
01:22After she won her last Breeders' Cup race and she came here, I remember being very nervous
01:29because she was a big, big deal.
01:32And we wanted everything to be perfect.
01:35We had people here filming her, but she handled it really well.
01:39And I remember feeding her a carrot and just imagining, you know, what it was going to be like to
01:45take care of her.
01:47I started working here about seven years ago, and kind of the first things I wanted to go do is
01:52go out and see her.
01:53She owns this farm.
01:56She's definitely a diva. She is not the most cuddly horse. She's fine with people.
02:03And she likes attention to a point, especially when treats are involved.
02:08She's very good at staring down the aisle way one way and staring down the aisle way another way, posing.
02:14Kind of working the crowd that way, but once she knows that the treats are not there anymore,
02:19she's happy to go back into her stall and kind of ignore people.
02:23She knows her situation. We try not to change it at all.
02:26We can do everything we want with her, but if she doesn't like something,
02:30we've got to find another way, a better way.
02:33You know, she's a good mother. She raises these foals pretty well.
02:38She meant a lot to Mr. Hughes and to now to Tammy and Eric.
02:43So much that they named one of her fillies after Tammy, Tamara,
02:49and she became a pretty good racehorse herself.
02:52When a lot of people say, I work at Spindorf and I do this and that,
02:55and they ask me, do you know this mare?
02:57And I go, yeah, behold, yeah. I work with her every day and it feels good to talk about it.
03:01I still do think about her as being special.
03:05It's a little humbling sometimes.
03:08It doesn't feel like I should be managing a horse that great,
03:15but it gives me some pride to think about that.
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