2021 Eclipse Awards: Stonestreet Farm

Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm, which has developed a star-studded broodmare band that is a major force in the commercial arena and on the racetrack, is seeking its first Eclipse Award as a finalist for the outstanding breeder of 2021.

Stonestreet-raised fillies had a hammerlock on the 3-year-old filly division of 2021, with Eclipse Award finalists Malathaat and Clairiere. Malathaat, by Curlin and out of Stonestreet’s homebred Grade 1 winner Dreaming of Julia, was sold for $1.05 million by Stonestreet as a yearling to Shadwell Stable. She won a trio of Grade 1 stakes in 2021 – the Central Bank Ashland, Longines Kentucky Oaks, and Alabama –and was third in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Raised in the same barn as Malathaat was Clairiere, by Curlin and out of Grade 1 winner Cavorting. Racing as a homebred for Stonestreet, she won the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing. Stonestreet also campaigned graded stakes winner Pauline’s Pearl, by Tapit and out of Grade 1 winner Hot Dixie Chick, as a homebred in the division.

Other Stonestreet-bred standouts on the track in 2021 included Winchell Thoroughbreds’s Silver State, winner of the Grade 1 Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap, and reigning Eclipse champion female sprinter Gamine, again a multiple Grade 1 winner for Michael Lund Petersen.

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Stonestreet broodmare Catch the Moon was represented in 2021 by her fourth graded stakes winner, as Midnight Bourbon – raced by Winchell Thoroughbreds – joined Girvin, Cocked and Loaded, and Pirate’s Punch. Catch the Moon’s yearling colt by Quality Road sold for $1.6 million at the Keeneland September sale, the second-highest price of the sale after Stonestreet bred the highest-priced colt in each of the sale’s last two editions.