Many Clouds
| Many Clouds | |
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Leighton Aspell and Many Clouds in 2014
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| Sire | Cloudings |
| Grandsire | Sadler's Wells |
| Dam | Bobbing Back |
| Damsire | Bob Back |
| Sex | Gelding |
| Foaled | 21 April 2007 |
| Died | 28 January 2017 (aged 9) |
| Country | Ireland |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Aidan Aherne |
| Owner | Trevor Hemmings |
| Trainer | Oliver Sherwood |
| Record | 27: 12-7-0 |
| Earnings | £928,000 |
| Major wins | |
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Hennessy Gold Cup (2014) Cotswold Chase (2015, 2017) Grand National (2015) |
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| Awards | |
| British Jump Racing Horse of the Year (2015) | |
Many Clouds (21 April 2007 – 28 January 2017) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 2015 Grand National. After being sold as a foal, he was sent to England and trained for a National Hunt racing career by Oliver Sherwood.
He won a National Hunt Flat race and two Novice hurdle races before moving to steeplechases as a six-year-old in the autumn of 2013. In his first season over fences, he won twice as well as finishing second in the Grade 2 Reynoldstown Novices' Chase and fourth in the Grade 1 Mildmay Novices' Chase. He emerged as a top-class chaser in the following season, winning his first three races including the Hennessy Gold Cup and the Cotswold Chase before disappointing when strongly fancied for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. On 11 April 2015, ridden as in all of his previous races by Leighton Aspell, he carried 11 stone 9 pound to victory in the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse.
Many Clouds won one race in the following season but finished unplaced when joint-favourite for the 2016 Grand National. In January 2017, he beat the previously undefeated Thistlecrack in winning his second Cotswold Chase but collapsed and died of a pulmonary hemorrhage shortly after crossing the finish line.
Many Clouds was a "big, old-fashioned" brown gelding bred in Ireland by Aidan Aherne at the Windward House Stud in County Cork. He was one of several good jumpers sired by Cloudings, a son of Sadler's Wells, who won the Prix Lupin in 1997. Many Clouds' dam, Bobbing Back, has also produced The Tullow Tank, winner of the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle and the Future Champions Novice Hurdle.
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