Beholder Works, 'Probable' for Pacific Classic

Thursday, August 11, 2016 | 5:23 pm

Updated: August 11, 2016 at 8:59 pm

Spendthrift Farms' Beholder, a 5-year-old mare, and jockey Gary Stevens dusted the boys to easily win the Grade I $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic Saturday, August 22, 2015 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar, CA. ©Benoit Photo

Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella called his champion mare Beholder (Henny Hughes) “probable” for the Aug. 20 GI Pacific Classic Wednesday afternoon, hours after the 6-year-old mare worked a bullet five furlongs in :59 flat, and repeated the same designation Thursday morning.

Beholder and California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) are among nine that had nomination paperwork submitted Thursday morning to the Del Mar meet centerpiece.

Dortmund (Big Brown), a narrow runner-up to California Chrome in the Grade II San Diego H. July 23, and Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday), both from the stable of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, are also expected to be nominated and run.