2024 Eclipse Awards: Klaravich Stables

Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables enjoyed another consistent year in 2024 to again place the stable among the Eclipse Award finalists for leading owner.

Klarman 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. Lawrence was in the process of exiting the business at the time, but Klarman has kept on as a solo act, including as a prominent breeder, to continue to find success at the top levels of the sport. His four Grade 1 winners in 2024 were evenly split between homebred 3-year-olds and runners who had been purchased as younger horses.

One standout is the homebred filly Ways and Means, a daughter of former Klaravich-Lawrence runner Practical Joke. Ways and Means is an Eclipse Award finalist for outstanding female sprinter for a campaign highlighted by a score in the Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga. She also won the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Stakes against older foes.

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Another Klaravich homebred by Practical Joke, Domestic Product won three graded stakes races in 2024, highlighted by the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial over a salty field at Saratoga. He was third in the Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile in his career finale.

Randomized was the stable’s third Grade 1 winner at Saratoga this year, confirming her affinity for the track where she won the historic Alabama Stakes on in 2023. Last spring, Randomized outgamed champion Idiomatic to the wire for a nose win in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps Stakes in June, with another champion, Pretty Mischievous, in third.

Klaravich’s fourth Grade 1 winner on the season was Program Trading, who won the Old Forester Turf Classic at Churchill Downs.

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