SOUL Stirring was the champion filly at two and three years in Japan following her victories in the Group 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Stakes and the Group 1 Yushun Himba (Oaks), and she was the first winner at the highest level for the great Frankel (Galileo).

This year her half-sister Schon Glanz, a two-year-old daughter of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence), will bid to emulate her famous sibling and her recent victory in the Group 3 Artemis Stakes at Tokyo has put her firmly in the spotlight.

The fillies are the offspring of an outstanding racemare who made her mark in France and the USA and went to stud having annexed six Group/Grade 1 races in a 10-race winning career. Stacelita was the champion filly of her year at three in France and she also won an Eclipse Award in the USA.

Martin Schwartz bought a share in Stacelita in May 2009 and then assumed full ownership the following year. In France she was trained by Jean-Claude Rouget and later by Chad Brown. Stacelita was undefeated in her first six starts, including the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary, Group 1 Prix de Diane and Group 1 Prix Vermeille, the latter as a result of the disqualification of Dar Re Mi. She finished her three-year-old campaign down the field in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe behind Sea The Stars.

At four she was second to Midday in the Group 1 Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on her first trip outside France before adding the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet to her tally. Stacelita moved to the USA during her five-year-old campaign and won the Grade 1 Beverly D. Stakes from Dubawi Heights. She returned to win the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational before finishing a disappointing tenth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf in the final race of her career. Nonetheless she was named the 2011 Eclipse Award winner as champion female turf horse.

She produced the winning filly Southern Stars (Smart Strike) as her first foal and then was sold to Shadai Farm who sent her to Frankel.

Three winners with her first three foals has seen her make the perfect start at stud, and she has also gone on to have a perfect record of five fillies, with a yearling and foal also by Deep Impact.

Stacelita is a daughter of Monsun (Konigsstuhl), a multiple champion sire in Germany and responsible for a plethora of Group 1 winners and Group 1 sires. Stacelita’s dam Soignee (Dashing Blade) was a leading two-year-old in Germany and a half-sister to a pair of stakes winners by Monsun, the best of them being the Group 2 winner Simoun.