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BREEDERS’ CUP CHAMP BEHOLDER FACES OLDER FOR THE FIRST TIME, JOYFUL VICTORY & NAPRAVNIK SHIP WEST AS CONTENTIOUS FIELD OF EIGHT COLLIDE IN GRADE I ZENYATTA STAKES AT SANTA ANITA SATURDAY

OUTSTANDING FIELD CONTESTS MILE AND A SIXTEENTH BREEDERS’ CUP ‘WIN AND YOU’RE IN’       PREP FOR $2 MILLION DISTAFF AT SANTA ANITA NOV. 1

 

                ARCADIA, Calif. (Sept. 25, 2013)—Fresh off a facile 2 ¾ length romp in the Torrey Pines Stakes on Sept. 1, Spendthrift Farm’s Beholder, winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and subsequent Eclipse Champion, will face a deep and contentious field of older fillies and mares for the first time in Saturday’s Grade I, $250,000 Zenyatta Stakes going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita.  The Zenyatta is one of five Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” prep stakes on Saturday, with the $2 million Distaff on Nov. 1 slated as the ultimate destination.