Stacelita is a dark bay or black mare who was bred in France by Jean-Pierre Joseph Dubois.
[7] She then won La Coupe at Longchamps[1] before finishing second to Midday in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood in her first trip outside of France.
[12] Moved to the barn of trainer Chad Brown, she won the Beverly D. Stakes on 13 August by 1+1⁄4 lengths over Dubawi Heights.
"[13] Stacelita returned to win the Flower Bowl Invitational on 1 October before finishing a disappointing tenth in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in the final race of her career.
[1] Despite that loss, Stacelita was named the 2011 Eclipse Award winner as champion female turf horse, winning 158 of 211 votes.
Monsun was at the forefront of a "renaissance" for German breeding,[17] helped by the fact that his pedigree represented an outcross for the "ever-increasing saturation of Northern Dancer" in European bloodlines.