2023 Eclipse Awards: Klaravich Stables

Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables enjoyed another consistent year in 2023 to again place the stable among the Eclipse Award finalists for leading owner.

Klarman, 66 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 won the Eclipse Award as outstanding owner that season. However, Lawrence was in the process of exiting the business, and Klarman kept on.

Klaravich was second in earnings and graded stakes wins to the massive Godolphin operation in 2023.

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One of Klaravich’s standout runners in 2023 was the 3-year-old filly Surge Capacity, who won 4 of 5 starts, with three graded stakes wins, including the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes against older rivals at Del Mar in December in her final start of the season.

Klaravich colorbearer Randomized, a finalist in the 3-year-old filly category, won the historic Grade 1 Alabama Stakes, defeated older females in the Grade 2 Beldame Stakes, and was a strong second to another Eclipse Award finalist, Idiomatic, in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Klaravich this year also raced dual Grade 1 winner Program Trading, who took the Saratoga Derby Invitational and Hollywood Derby, and Marketsegmentation, winner of the Grade 1 New York Stakes.

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