2022 Eclipse Awards: Klaravich Stables

Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables enjoyed another consistent year in 2022, with accomplishments highlighted by another judiciously managed American classic winner to again place the operation among the divisional Eclipse Award finalists.

Klarman, 65 and a native of Massachusetts, was known for a long ownership partnership with William Lawrence, with whom he campaigned 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar. The duo owned the Eclipse as outstanding owner for that season. However, Lawrence was in the process of exiting the business, and Klarman kept on.

This spring, Klarman owned the talented colt Early Voting. Despite having the points to contest the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve, Klarman and trainer Chad Brown resisted that temptation with their lightly raced colt and instead targeted the Preakness Stakes, a strategy that had resulted in Cloud Computing’s victory in the 2017 edition of the classic race. That move again paid off in 2022, as Early Voting bested favored Epicenter to carry Klarman’s silks to a second Preakness victory.

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Klarman’s other top runners in 2022 included McKulick, who won the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational, and graded stakes winners Consumer Spending, Faith in Humanity, Gerrymander, Highly Motivated, Search Results, and Technical Analysis. Klarman finished second to Godolphin on the North American earnings leaderboard, despite having nearly 100 fewer starts than that massive operation. He was third in the nation by graded stakes victories.

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