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Stellar Wind is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, known for her Eclipse Award winning three-year-old season, and later for her rivalry with the champion mare Beholder. Bred in Virginia, she raced in Maryland as a juvenile, winning one minor race from two starts. As a three-year-old, racing mainly in California, she improved to become arguably the best filly of her generation. In the spring of 2015, she won the Santa Ysabel Stakes and the Santa Anita Oaks before finishing a troubled fourth in the Kentucky Oaks. On her return to California, she recorded further victories in the Summertime Oaks and the Torrey Pines Stakes, and then ended her season by finishing a strong second in the Breeders' Cup Distaff. She was voted American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly of 2015.
The Chillingworth Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are three years old or older, over a distance of 6+1⁄2 furlongs on the dirt track held annually in October at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, California. The event currently carries a purse of $100,000.
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- 1 2 Herbert, Robert (6 July 1968). "All Game for Gamely (Look Back: Gamely Leads a Perry Sweep in 1968 Vanity)". Blood-Horse . Retrieved 1 June 2017.
- ↑ "Santa Anita Media Guide" (PDF). www.santaanita.com. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ↑ "Santa Anita Renames Vanity to 'Beholder Mile'". BloodHorse.com. Retrieved 20 April 2017.