Cloud Computing captures the Preakness for once-raced sire

Cloud Computing may have sat the Kentucky Derby out, but he proved himself a high-class colt in no uncertain terms with victory in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, and provided those connected with him and his once-raced sire with a sweet success.

Trained by Chad Brown and ridden by Javier Castellano, Cloud Computing rounded the home upsides Always Dreaming, a couple of lengths adrift of the Pioneerof The Nile colt Classic Empire. Cloud Computing had closed the gap by the final furlong, and gradually wore Classic Empire down to win by a head.

Bred by Hill 'n' Dale Equine Holdings and Stretch Run Ventures and owned by Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence, Cloud Computing is from the debut crop of the once-raced Maclean's Music, a nine-year-old son of Distorted Humor who stands for just $8,500, and is out of the A.P. Indy mare Quick Temper. He was a $200,000 Keeneland yearling purchase.

The Graded-placed Quick Temper is a half-sister to Marino Marini, who was trained early on in his career by Aidan O'Brien, for whom he finished second in the Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh and third in the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot. The pair are out of the high-class handicapper Halo America.

Maclean's Music's sole start came in a 6f maiden at Santa Anita as a three-year-old, a race he won by seven lengths. Raced by Stonestreet Stables, for whom the colt was a $900,000 Keeneland buyback, Maclean's Music was retired from racing after suffering from a splint injury, and took his place at stud at John Sikura's Hill 'n' Dale Farm.

Cloud Computing, bred off the bargain sum of $6,500, becomes the second winner of a Triple Crown race in 2017 to represent a sire having his first three-year-olds this year, as the Kentucky Derby hero Always Dreaming is by WinStar Farm's Bodemeister.

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