Thunder Snow

Thunder Snow
Thunder Snow at the 2018 Breeders' Cup
Sire	Helmet
Grandsire	Exceed and Excel
Dam	Eastern Joy
Damsire	Dubai Destination
Sex	Colt
Foaled	24 March 2014[1]
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Darley Stud
Owner	Godolphin
Trainer	Saeed bin Suroor
Record	24: 8-7-4
Earnings	£12,671,800
Major wins
Critérium International (2016) UAE 2000 Guineas (2017) UAE Derby (2017) Prix Jean Prat (2017) Al Maktoum Challenge, Round 2 (2018) Dubai World Cup (2018, 2019)
Awards
Top-rated British two-year-old (2016)

Thunder Snow (foaled 24 March 2014) is an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse, the only two-time winner of the Dubai World Cup (2018, 2019). In 2016 he won a minor race on his track debut but was then beaten in his next four races although he ran well in defeat to finish second in the Vintage Stakes and the Champagne Stakes and fourth in the Dewhurst Stakes. He produced his best performance of 2016 on his final start of the year when he was sent to France and recorded an emphatic victory in the Critérium International. At the end of the year he was rated the best two-year-old trained in Britain.

In early 2017 he was campaigned in Dubai and won the UAE 2000 Guineas and the UAE Derby before being shipped to the United States to contest the Kentucky Derby but effectively refused to race in the American contest. On his return to Europe he finished second in the Irish 2000 Guineas and third in the St James's Palace Stakes before winning the Prix Jean Prat. As a four-year-old he won the Al Maktoum Challenge, Round 2 before recording his biggest success in the Dubai World Cup. In the following year, he became the first horse to win the Dubai World Cup for a second time.