- Cloudy's Knight
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Cloudy's Knight Sire Lord Avie Grandsire Lord Gaylord Dam Cloudy Spot Damsire Solar City Sex Stallion Country United States Colour Bay Breeder Jerrold Schwartz Owner S J Stables LLC Trainer James McMullen
Frank J. Kirby
Jonathan E. SheppardRecord 41: 14-9-4 Earnings US$2,491,620 Major wins John Henry Stakes (2004)
Rossi Gold Stakes (2005)
Fair Grounds Handicap (2007)
Sky Classic Stakes (2007)
Canadian International Stakes (2007)
Sycamore Stakes (2009)
Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes (2009)
Valedictory Stakes (2009)
W. L. McKnight Handicap (2009)Awards Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse (2007) Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Cloudy's Knight (foaled May 2, 2000 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Out of Northern Dancer's grandadaughter, Cloudy Spot, he was sired by the 1980 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Lord Avie. The horse has been successful racing on both synthetic dirt and turf.
In 2007, under trainer Frank Kirby, Cloudy's Knight won the richest and most important race of his career, the $2 million Grade 1 Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada. [1] Added to his win in Woodbine's G2 Sky Classic Stakes, he was voted Canada's Sovereign Award for Champion Male Turf Horse.
In 2009, following a year-long layoff as a result of a serious tendon injury, the nine-year-old gelding came back to another highly successful campaign for trainer Jonathan Sheppard. Under Champion jockey Rosemary Homeister, Jr., Cloudy's Knight raised his career earnings to more than $2.4 million with wins in the Kentucky Cup Turf Stakes [2] and Sycamore Stakes [3] at tracks in Kentucky, a second by a nose in the mile and three-quarter Breeders' Cup Marathon at Santa Anita Park [4], and on December 6, he won in the mile and three-quarter Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine. [5]. In his final race in the year 2009, the 9-year-old took the W. L. McKnight Handicap from Presious Passion who had won it in 2007 & 2008.
References
Categories:- 2000 racehorse births
- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Northern Dancer bloodline
- Racehorses bred in Kentucky
- Racehorses trained in the United States
- American racehorses
- Sovereign Award winners
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