9 yo Cloudy's Knight wins back to back graded stakes

Giacomo_05 · Weanling Joined: 03 Sep 2008 Posts: 46

Check out the replay & watch the old guy fire down the lane...

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/53088/9-year-old-cloudys-knight-wins-sycamore

The former Canadian Int'l winner still has it.

wangkw · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

Out of curiosity I surfed the net and discovered some one quoted the oldest horse had lived to 62 years old. The horse, named Old Billy,
was born in 1760 in UK.
Another writer also wrote that the oldest American horse is at least 51 years old. His name was Copper, a retired police horse which was
in 2004, then 51, admitted to an equine clinic for loss of appetite. There was no follow up news on whether it survived beyond 2004.

Then the oldest age a horse has ever won a flat race was 18. This happened in UK 1790 by a horse called Revenge. There were 2 others
in the 1800s, but no ages given.

I dont know about the American example..all other events occurred in the 1700s and 1800s..it is rather suspicious.

Laughing

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Aug27 · Maiden Special Weight Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 109

Amazing to still be winning Stakes at that age!
I found a lot of 10yo+ winners of normal races (literally hundreds each year), with the oldest most recent being:

4/3/2003 Northern Broadway Beulah Park, clmg, $2,280, 4.5 f, 0:53.23. Northern Broadway (c, 15yo), Northern Magus - Broadway Front by Gum Tree Danny. B
9/6/1998 Sharon Caper Northampton, clmg, $1,843, 6.5 f, 1:24.20. Sharon Caper (c, 15yo), Cartesian - Fly Sharon by Ruffled Feathers.
4/23/1997 Playing Politics Suffolk Downs, clmg, $2,760, 6 f, 1:15.20. Playing Politics (c, 15yo), In Reality - Belle Poule by Barbizon.

karenkarenn · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

Wow for Cloudys Knight
Just WOW. What a good job all the way around at nine!
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Giacomo_05 · Weanling Joined: 03 Sep 2008 Posts: 46

Indeed Karen! He literally gave it all he had and ran a huge race. Just heartbreaking though-he lost by only four inches, but I'm really proud of this gutsy and brave horse. Maybe he even has a little left for next year...

Also, who knows-maybe old Einstein may have one more big effort left in the tank too...

geowarrior · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:55 am Post subject:

I cried. I've been following Cloudy for several years (in early days of my watching American racing his extreme chestnutness made him more recognizable on my crappy tv than almost any other horse). Today he didn't know he was nine, nor did he know he might not like synthetic since he had made 38 of 39 previous starts on turf. He also didn't know that he'd never gone that distance, and he trusted his jockey to take him out of his normal running style with an earlier move - a masterpiece of staying-race tactical riding on the part of Homeister Jr.

In a race where Simon Bray of TVG called the North American contingent 'embarassing', Cloudy showed he still has the heart of a Champion, even though it's two years since he was elected Champion Turf Male in Canada.

Today's race will go down as one of my favorite Breeders' Cup moments.

Tiz · Restricted Stakes Winner Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 778

Except for that he missed getting back up by a fraction. What a good race.

zinn21 · Breeder's Cup Contender Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 1858

I think the jock moved a head too early...

geowarrior · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject:

You might be right Zinn, although she said that Cloudy moved himself. He certainly sat much closer to the pace and hit the lead much earlier than he's used to, but didn't seem uncomfortable with it. Even if she did initiate the move, it's debatable whether that was a mistake, because by moving when she did she made sure that Mastery (and presumably he was the one with the target on his back) was hemmed in such that she got first jump on him, and essentially made sure he was beaten. Had Cloudy delayed his move, Mastery might have been able to get rolling and could conceivably have won the whole thing. The move did open up the rail for Man of Honour, and I'm not sure that Cloudy,who's unused to spending time on the lead, saw him coming up on the inside.