Stellar Wind (foaled February 13, 2012) 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.

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.

At age four, Stellar Wind won two of her starts, beating Beholder in both the Clement L. Hirsch and Zenyatta while finishing second to her in the Vanity Mile and fourth in the Distaff.

At age five, Stellar Wind won the Apple Blossom Handicap, the newly renamed Beholder Mile and the Clement L. Hirsch.

Stellar Wind is a chestnut filly with a white blaze bred in Virginia by Keswick Stables & Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings.

[5] In August 2013, the filly was consigned by Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services to the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale and was sold for $40,000 to Vernan Lee Stables.

Stellar Wind made her first appearance in a maiden race at Laurel Park Racecourse on November 20, and finished third of the fourteen runners behind Spotted Heart and Gypsy Judy.

Four weeks later, at the same track, she contested a similar event and recorded her first success as she drew away from her six rivals in the stretch to win by eight and three quarter lengths.

[11] On May 1, Stellar Wind started as the slight favorite in a fourteen-horse field for the Kentucky Oaks, which was contested over nine furlongs at Churchill Downs.

[12] She broke poorly and had to stay towards the rear of the field, but made steady progress while being forced to run nine horses wide on the final turn.

She kept moving steadily, but never looked likely to win, and finished fourth, beaten 4 3/4 lengths by Lovely Maria, Shook Up, and I'm A Chatterbox.

[19] For her final race of the year, Stellar Wind was matched against older fillies and mares for the first time in the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Keeneland on October 30.

[20] On her first appearance as a four-year-old, Stellar Wind was matched against the outstanding racemare Beholder in the Vanity Mile at Santa Anita on June 4 and finished second, a length and a half behind her older rival.

[21] On July 30, Stellar Wind faced Beholder again, this time in the Clement L. Hirsch at Del Mar, and turned the tables on the Champion mare to prevail in a thrilling stretch run.

While the main focus was on Beholder and Songbird, every filly or mare in the race was a Grade I winner, including the Argentinean invader Corona Del Inca.

[23] Her owners originally planned to retire Stellar Wind and sell her at the November Fasig-Tipton sale as a broodmare prospect, but instead decided to keep her in training.

Stellar Wind began her five-year-old season on April 14, 2017, in the Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas, where she went off as the 2–5 favorite.

The early leader, Terra Promessa, tried to fight back but Stellar Wind wore her down in the stretch and won by 1+1⁄4 lengths.

[28] 2018: Six-Year-Old Season Stellar Wind made one start at six, in the $16,000,000 Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational for Coolmore Stud.

Source: Equibase charts[2] Just days after the Distaff, Stellar Wind was sold at the Keeneland November Sales for $6 million to representatives of Coolmore Stud.