Last year’s Eclipse and Cartier award winner, Banks Hill, has been retired to stud following a fourth place in the Matriarch Stakes. No stallion has been decided on for the four year old Danehill filly.  

Trained by Andre Fabre in all but her last two starts, Banks Hill was trained by Bobby Frankel  for the Breeders' Cup and Matriarch Stakes.

Banks Hill won her only race at two. She showed her class when she was an unlucky second in the French 1000 Guineas before picking up the Group 1 Coronation Stakes in impressive style. In the latter race, she handsomely turned the tables on her Guineas conqueror, Rose Gypsy. She ran well in the French championship mile races, running second in both the Prix du Moulin and Jacques le Marois. However she kept her best for her last race of the season. Banks Hill slaughtered a top field in the Breeders' Cup Fillies and Mares Turf. Slamming champion Spook Express by over five lengths she had the likes of Tranquility Lake, Lailani and England’s Legend well back. 

The beginning of Banks Hill’s four year old career was anticlimactic with defeats in her first two starts. She made amends when beating subsequent Breeders' Cup Mile hero, Domedriver in the Prix Jacques le Marois. Despite not winning again, Banks Hill ran creditably in her last four starts, which included a second to the record setting Rock of Gibraltar. 

Banks Hill was bred and raced by Juddmonte Farms, who also bred and raced her sire, dam and siblings.

A full sister to Breeders' Cup Mile third, Dansili and the Group 1 placed Intercontinental, she is also a three parts sister to stakes winner Heat Haze. This is the family of champion Sookera (dam of So Factual) and the “Iron Horse”, Giant’s Causeway. Banks Hill won 5 of 15 starts and was placed 8 times.