More Cloudy's Knight · 15.12.09

ESPN’s Bill Finley likes Cloudy’s Knight at least as much as we do:

At an age when he should have been well past his prime and coming off what appeared to be a career-ending injury, the old pro has won three stakes this year, earned $338,409 and missed winning a Breeders’ Cup race by a nose….
“They sent me the horse and this enormous, rangy animal arrives,” [trainer Jonathan] Sheppard said. “He’s about 17 hands. We did start jumping him a little bit when he first came to get him legged back up. He took to the jumping quite well, but once we got further along we cut out the jumping because he was training so well. It looked like he still had some life left in him as a flat horse. In his works, he showed amazing stamina.”…
The plan now is to give Cloudy’s Knight some time off and gear up for some races in the spring….
“We might pick up the tempo,” he said. “We might have a more ambitious schedule and point for some of the bigger Grade II and Grade I races on the turf.“

Sounds great — but don’t forget about the stamina bit, like Champs Elysees’ connections almost did.

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What do you think?

  1. Always love rags to riches stories.

    — Dr. T. Yatcak · Dec 20, 09:53 AM · #

  2. I hope that the racing world is beginning to see that a BALANCE is needed between all of these sprints and marathons. Without them, and at graded status, HOW are breeders to know where stamina genes come from?

    — Dr. T. Yatcak · Dec 28, 03:40 PM · #

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