Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015, has been exported to Ireland, where she will be bred to world-class sire Galileo during this year’s breeding season. The news was initially reported Monday by the BloodHorse. The 6-year-old Curlin mare sold to M.V. Magnier of the Coolmore operation for a sale-topping $6 million at last year’s Keeneland November breeding stock sale, and plans initially called for her to visit Triple Crown winner American Pharoah for her first mating at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., after one final race in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational, where she finished sixth. Galileo, a 20-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells and European champion on the track, stands at Coolmore Stud in Co. Tipperary, Ireland where he has emerged as a global force at stud. :: Get breeding & sales news, Beyer info, and more delivered right to your email! From 14 crops of racing age, Galileo has sired 1,297 winners – 175 of whom are graded or group stakes winners – for combined progeny earnings of more than $217.6 million. His 14 champions globally include 2011 European Horse of the Year Frankel; 2011 South African Horse of the Year Igugu; 2015 Czech Horse of the Year Touch of Genius; U.S. champion Cape Blanco; European champions New Approach, Teofilo, Lily of the Valley, and Maybe; South African champion Mahbooba; along with champions in Scandinavia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. A sampling of his other global Grade/Group 1 winners includes Highland Reel, Found, Australia, Minding, Order of St George, and Soldier of Fortune. Bred in Virginia by the partnership of Keswick Stables and Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, Stellar Wind won 10 of 17 career starts for earnings of $2,903,200. Her Eclipse Award-winning campaign featured wins in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks, Grade 2 Summertime Oaks, and Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes and Torrey Pines Stakes, and finished with a narrow runner-up effort in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland. Other campaigns featured scores in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap, Beholder Mile, Zenyatta Stakes, and two editions of the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes. After breaking her maiden by 8 3/4 lengths in her second career start at Laurel Park for owner Barbara Houck and trainer Donald Barr, Stellar Wind was sold to Hronis Racing and put in the barn of trainer John Sadler, where she spent the bulk of her racing career. She was placed with Chad Brown after selling to Coolmore. Stellar Wind is the first foal, runner, and winner out of the winning Malibu Moon mare Evening Star. She is from the family of Grade 1 winners Mor Spirit and Great Hunter.