{{Infobox racehorse
, horsename = Cloudy's Knight
, image = Breeders_Cup_2009_006_(4107815695).jpg
, caption = Cloudy's Knight (#4) in the 2009 Breeders' Cup Marathon
, 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$
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2,491,620
, race = John Henry Stakes (2004) Rossi Gold Stakes (2005)
Fair Grounds Handicap
The Fair Grounds Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for four-year-olds and older run over a distance of about miles (9 furlongs) on the turf annually in mid-February at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
(2007)
Sky Classic Stakes
The Sky Classic Stakes is a Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Raced in mid to late August on turf over a distance of miles (10 furlongs), it is open to horses three years of age and ol ...
(2007)
Canadian International Stakes
The Canadian International Stakes is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and up on Turf. It is held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The current purse is
Since its creatio ...
(2007)
Sycamore Stakes
The Sycamore Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds or older, over a distance of miles on the turf held annually in October at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the autumn meeting. The event c ...
Valedictory Stakes
The Valedictory Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late November or early December at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to horses age three and older, the Grade III stakes is contested on a synthetic "all weat ...
Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse The Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse is a Canada, Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing honour that is part of the Sovereign Awards program awarded annually to the top male Thoroughbred turf horse competing in Canada. Created in 1975 by the Jockey Cl ...
(2007)
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Cloudy's Knight (foaled May 2, 2000 in
Kentucky
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) is an American
Thoroughbred
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American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt The American Champion Two-Year-Old Male Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually in Thoroughbred flat racing. It became part of the Eclipse Awards program in 1971.
The award originated in 1936 when the '' Daily Racing F ...
turf
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.
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
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Canadian International Stakes
The Canadian International Stakes is a Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and up on Turf. It is held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The current purse is
Since its creatio ...
at
Woodbine Racetrack
Woodbine Racetrack is a race track for Thoroughbred horse racing in the Etobicoke area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Owned by Woodbine Entertainment Group, Woodbine Racetrack manages and hosts Canada's most famous race, the King's Plate. The tra ...
in
Toronto
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Canada
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This win combined with his victory in Woodbine's G2
Sky Classic Stakes
The Sky Classic Stakes is a Grade II Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Raced in mid to late August on turf over a distance of miles (10 furlongs), it is open to horses three years of age and ol ...
, contributed to his being voted Canada's
Sovereign Award for Champion Male Turf Horse The Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse racing honour that is part of the Sovereign Awards program awarded annually to the top male Thoroughbred turf horse competing in Canada. Created in 1975 by the Jockey Club of C ...
.
In 2009, following a year-long layoff as a result of a serious
tendon
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injury, the nine-year-old gelding came back to another highly successful campaign for trainer Jonathan Sheppard. Under
Champion
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Sycamore Stakes
The Sycamore Stakes is a Grade III American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds or older, over a distance of miles on the turf held annually in October at Keeneland Race Course, Lexington, Kentucky during the autumn meeting. The event c ...
br> at tracks in Kentucky, a second by a nose in the mile and three-quarter
Breeders' Cup Marathon
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at
Santa Anita Park
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br> and on December 6, he won in the mile and three-quarter
Valedictory Stakes
The Valedictory Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late November or early December at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to horses age three and older, the Grade III stakes is contested on a synthetic "all weat ...
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.