GISW Tamara to Undergo Surgery

Monday, February 10, 2025 | 6:27 pm

Updated: February 10, 2025 at 6:28 pm

Jockey Mike Smith guides Tamara to the winner's circle after their victory in the Grade I, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante, Saturday, September 9, 2023 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar CA. © BENOIT PHOTO

Spendthrift Farm's Tamara (Bolt d'Oro), winner of the GI Del Mar Debutante during her juvenile season, is expected to undergo surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle this week, trainer Richard Mandella told DRF Sunday.

According to Mandella, the 4-year-old daughter of champion Beholder is expected to mark her return to the races at the end of Del Mar's summer meeting.

In her sole start at three, the filly was last seen finishing a nose second in a six-furlong allowance at Del Mar in November.

Named a TDN Rising Star following a 2 1/4-length victory at Del Mar in August of her juvenile season, the bay galloped in the seaside oval's Debutante before exiting a seventh-place effort in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita with an injury.