The Ocala Stud bred Musical Romance finished 2011 with a resounding win in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) and was rewarded for her stellar year with the 2011 Eclipse Award for Champion Female Sprinter at the ceremonies on Jan. 16 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The final balloting had Musical Romance with 131 votes, Hilda’s Passion with 53, and Sassy Image getting 46.

In addition to the Breeders' Cup, Musical Romance had a neck victory in the Grade 2 Presque Isle Downs Masters S., three stakes wins at Calder, and a near-misses in the Grade 1 Princess Rooney and the Grade 2 Thoroughbred Club of America S. at Keeneland. She has earned $1,217,850 with a mark of 9-5-7 in 33 career starts.

Musical Romance is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Vuelve Ruben M. and is by Concorde's Tune, who stood at Ocala Stud until his death in 2011. The dark bay 4-year-old filly was part of Ocala Stud's consignment at the 2009 OBS Spring 2-year-old sale, purchased by Adam Lazarus' Pinnacle Racing Stable, who owns the filly in partnership with trainer Bill Kaplan.

"To go where we have with this filly is beyond our imagination," said Lazarus. "This (Eclipse) means so much to us."