Stellar Wind (horse)

Stellar Wind
Stellar Wind at the 2016 Breeders' Cup
Sire	Curlin
Grandsire	Smart Strike
Dam	Evening Star
Damsire	Malibu Moon
Sex	Filly
Foaled	February 13th, 2012
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Keswick Stables & Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings
Owner	Hronis Racing
Trainer	Donald Barr (2014) John W. Sadler (2015 - present)
Record	13: 8-2-1
Earnings	$1,813,200
Major wins
Santa Ysabel Stakes (2015) Santa Anita Oaks (2015) Summertime Oaks (2015) Torrey Pines Stakes (2015) Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (2016) Zenyatta Stakes (2016) Apple Blossom Handicap (2017)
Awards
American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly (2015)

Stellar Wind (foaled February 13, 2012) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, known for her Eclipse Award winning three-year-old season, and later for her rivalry with the champion mare Beholder. Bred in Virginia, she raced in Maryland as a juvenile, winning one minor race from two starts. As a three-year-old, racing mainly in California, she improved to become arguably the best filly of her generation (in North America). In the spring of 2015, she won the Santa Ysabel Stakes and the Santa Anita Oaks before finishing a troubled fourth in the Kentucky Oaks. On her return to California, she recorded further victories in the Summertime Oaks and the Torrey Pines Stakes, and then ended her season by finishing a strong second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. She was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 2015.

Stellar Wind is a chestnut filly with a white blaze bred in Virginia by Keswick Stables & Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings. She is from the third crop of foals sired by Curlin, winner of the 2007 Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic. Curlin's other offspring have included Palace Malice, Keen Ice, and Exaggerator. Stellar Wind was the first foal out of her dam Evening Star, who won two minor races as a four-year-old in 2010, and was descended from the mare Omayya, who was the ancestor of many important winners including Tepin, Americain and the Irish Oaks winner Melodist.