[1] Stardom Bound was sired by Tapit (winner of the 2004 Wood Memorial Stakes), a son of Pulpit by A.P.

Due mainly to health issues (her original trainer, 52-year-old Christopher Paasch, beat a rare form of leukemia), Cono, then age 84, sold her in the November 2008 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected Mix Sale.

[5] Usually breaking badly (once "in the air" and twice slowly), she ran from off the pace, yet had a great turn of foot that propelled her to the lead.

In the Debutante, Stardom Bound overcame yet another bad start by unleashing a "monstrous move" while racing seven wide.

Her jockey in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, Mike E. Smith, was asked how special Stardom Bound could be next year as a 3-year-old.

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 just dulled out; she hasn't trained forwardly at all since the Ashland", IEAH Co-President Michael Iavarone told Daily Racing Form.

She was bred to Big Brown in 2010, and was sold while in foal for an undisclosed price to Northern Farm in Japan.