Many Clouds

Many Clouds
Leighton Aspell and Many Clouds in 2014
Sire	Cloudings
Grandsire	Sadler's Wells
Dam	Bobbing Back
Damsire	Bob Back
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	21 April 2007[1]
Died	28 January 2017(2017-01-28) (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
Hennessy Gold Cup (2014) Cotswold Chase (2015, 2017) Grand National (2015)
Awards
British Jump Racing Horse of the Year (2015)
Honours
Many Clouds Chase at Aintree

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 an exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage^[2] shortly after crossing the finish line. He was subsequently assessed as the leading staying steeplechaser in Britain and Ireland for the 2016–17 season.