Stardom Bound, the Eclipse champion 2-year-old filly of 2008, was retired and shipped to Kentucky this week.

The gray filly, owned by the IEAH racing group, is now boarded at Bluewater Farm near Lexington. She will be bred later this spring to IEAH's biggest star, Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, who stands at Three Chimneys Farm.

From the first crop of Tapit, Stardom Bound burst onto the scene by breaking her maiden in the Grade I Del Mar Debutante, then won the Oak Leaf and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. She won the Las Virgenes and the Santa Anita Oaks to stretch her streak to five consecutive Grade I victories. But the Oaks, in March 2009, would be her last career victory. Although second in the El Encino earlier this year, she was never able to regain her earlier form, and most recently was fifth in an allowance on the Keeneland turf.

Stardom Bround retires with a career mark of 12-5-3-1 and earnings of over $1.8 million.