Stardom Bound

Stardom Bound
Stardom Bounds wins the BC Juvenile Fillies
Sire	Tapit
Grandsire	Pulpit
Dam	My White Corvette
Damsire	Tarr Road
Sex	Mare
Foaled	2006
Country	United States
Colour	Grey or Roan
Breeder	Fletcher & Carolyn Gray, John Youngblood
Owner	Charles Cono IEAH Stables IEAH & David Lanzman (March,2009)
Trainer	Christopher Paasch (2008) Robert J. Frankel (2009) Rick Dutrow (2009-2010)
Record	12 Starts: 5 – 3 - 1
Earnings	$1,600,600
Major wins
Del Mar Debutante Stakes (2008) Oak Leaf Stakes (2008) Las Virgenes Stakes (2009) Santa Anita Oaks (2009) American Classics / Breeders' Cup wins: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (2008)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, 2008

Stardom Bound (foaled in Kentucky on April 9, 2006) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Eclipse Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly.

Stardom Bound was sired by Tapit (winner of the 2004 Wood Memorial Stakes), a son of Pulpit by A.P. Indy by Seattle Slew. She was from Tapit's first crop and helped propel him to the top of the 2008 Freshmen Sire List. Stardom Bound is out of My White Corvette, who won three of eleven starts. Stardom Bound was My White Corvette's first stakes winner.

She was purchased by Charles Cono in March 2008 at the Ocala Breeders' Sale's auction of 2-year-olds in training for $375,000. Due mainly to health issues (her original trainer, 52-year-old Christopher Paasch, beat a rare form of leukemia), Cono, then age 84, sold her in the November 2008 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected Mix Sale. She was purchased for $5.7 million by IEAH Stables, headed by Michael Iavarone and Richard Schiavo. Her trainer became Bobby Frankel. In March 2009 as part of a deal for the three-year-old colt, I Want Revenge, David Lanzman, the colt's owner, received a twenty-five percent interest in Stardom Bound. In 2010, she was sold for an undisclosed price to Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm.

In her brilliant 2-year-old season, Stardom Bound was compared to Zenyatta; those around her called her "Baby Z" or "Zenyatta Junior". Usually breaking badly (once "in the air" and twice slowly), she ran from off the pace, yet had a great turn of foot that propelled her to the lead.

She first attracted attention when winning the 2008 Del Mar Debutante on September 1, 2008. She had raced twice before but difficulties at the gate had hampered her chances each time. In the Debutante, Stardom Bound overcame yet another bad start by unleashing a "monstrous move" while racing seven wide. She would go on to win by over four lengths.