2022 Eclipse Awards: Stonestreet Farm

The influence of Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm was all over the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff, one of the most exciting races of the championship weekend. Malathaat, last year’s Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old filly, won by a pair of noses over Blue Stripe and Clairiere. Malathaat and Clairiere, both daughters of former Stonestreet colorbearer Curlin, were raised in the same barn, and the outfit sold Malathaat as a yearling, while it campaigns multiple Grade 1 winner Clairiere as a homebred. Another Stonestreet graduate, the bred-and-sold Goodnight Olive, gave the farm another 2022 Breeders’ Cup victory, taking the Filly and Mare Sprint.

Stonestreet also campaigned homebred Grade 1 winner Pauline’s Pearl, a particularly sentimental runner for Banke. The filly is out of Grade 1 winner Hot Dixie Chick, the first runner Banke campaigned in her own name, and is named after the owner’s mother.

Overall, Stonestreet finished second to Godolphin on the North American breeders list by both graded stakes wins, 20 to 14, and by Grade 1 wins, 12 to 7. It also was third by earnings behind Godolphin and Calumet Farm.

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In addition to Curlin, who led the nation by Grade 1 winners in 2022, several Stonestreet colorbearers are prominent Kentucky stallions – including homebred Good Magic, a son of Curlin who was among the leading freshman sires of 2022.

Stonestreet is a prominent supporter of Thoroughbred aftercare organizations, including New Vocations, through which several of its former runners have been adopted out.

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