Cloudy's Knight

Cloudy's Knight
Sire	Lord Avie
Grandsire	Lord Gaylord
Dam	Cloudy Spot
Damsire	Solar City
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	May 2, 2000
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Jerrold Schwartz
Owner	S J Stables LLC
Trainer	James McMullen Frank J. Kirby Jonathan E. Sheppard
Record	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)

Cloudy's Knight (foaled May 2, 2000 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Out of Northern Dancer's granddaughter 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, ridden by Ramsey Zimmerman, 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. This win combined with his victory in Woodbine's G2 Sky Classic Stakes, contributed to his being 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 and Sycamore Stakes at tracks in Kentucky, a second by a nose in the mile and three-quarter Breeders' Cup Marathon at Santa Anita Park , and on December 6, he won in the mile and three-quarter Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine. . In his final race in the year 2009, the 9-year-old took the W. L. McKnight Handicap from Presious Passion, who had won the race in 2007 & 2008.

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