Tamara Retired To Spendthrift After Injury Setback

[Wandering Eyes]

Beholder's Grade I-winning daughter Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) has been retired to Spendthrift Farm following an injury that occurred after training Saturday. The news, first reported by the Daily Racing Form, comes as the latest blow for the soon to be 5-year-old whose career has been a progression of starts and stops dating back through her 2-year-old campaign.

Trainer Richard Mandella told the DRF's Steve Anderson that Tamara's post-workout X-rays were “clean, but she is off a little in her right front. They're planning to retire her, and I'm all for that.”

The injury occurred Saturday after the 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' worked five furlongs in :57.80. Tamara had been prepping for a start in Sunday's GIII Las Flores Stakes at Santa Anita Park.

Named a 'Rising Star' for her debut win at Del Mar in Aug. 2023, Tamara showed immediate class with a next-out win in the GI FanDuel Racing Del Mar Debutante Stakes that September. Sent off as the favorite in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she faded from the lead to finish seventh and exited the race with an injury which would keep her from the track nearly the entirety of 2024.

She did return to get second in allowance company at Del Mar in late November last year but another long layoff followed as Tamara would not race again until her win in this year's GIII Chillingworth Stakes at Santa Anita Oct. 4. She has since been disqualified from that win due to a medication overage.

An expected next start in this year's GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint also failed to happen as Tamara was scratched by the track veterinarians for unsoundness the morning of the race. She underwent several tests before returning to training for Mandella.

A homebred for Spendthrift Farm, who purchased her illustrious dam as a yearling for $180,000, Tamara retires with five total starts.

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