the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Mike E. Smith, was asked how special Stardom Bound could be next year as a 3-year-old. He replied, "She's got a shot with the Derby horses to tell you the truth." 2009 racing season Stardom Bound started her three-year-old in the Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita. She started well but found herself trapped on the rail. Finally finding a gap, she got clear to win by a length. In her next start in the Santa Anita Oaks, Stardom Bound again won, but this time by only a nose. Jockey Mike Smith said, "When I moved out with her turning for home, everybody else went out at the same time and we got caught really wide. From the sixteenth pole home, I thought we could grind ‘em down, but I was worried." It was her fifth consecutive grade 1 win and her last. On April 4, she raced outside of California for the first time in the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland, a major prep for the Kentucky Oaks. Longshot Hooh Why set a slow pace and Stardom Bound was unable to make up enough ground, finishing third. She was later withdrawn from the Kentucky Oaks. "She just dulled out; she hasn't trained forwardly at all since the Ashland", IEAH Co-President Michael Iavarone told Daily Racing Form. "It seems like we're at the point where she just needs a freshening. She was going to breeze [Sunday], but [exercise rider] Michelle [Nevin] told me she'd be afraid to breeze the filly." She finally returned to racing in November in the Gazelle Stakes at Aqueduct, but finished fifth. Retirement Stardom Bound was retired after failing to win in three starts in 2010 at age four. She was bred to Big Brown in 2010, and was sold while in foal for an undisclosed price to Northern Farm in Japan. The resulting colt was named Seaside Bound. She was bred to King Kamehameha in 2011, producing a colt named King Kanunu in 2012. She was then bred to Deep Impact, producing a filly named April Mist in 2014. Race record References External links Stardom Bound's pedigree and stats 2006 racehorse births Thoroughbred family 3-c Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winners Eclipse Award winners