Sky Classic (born 1987) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. A son of U.K. Triple Crown champion Nijinsky, in 1989 Sky Classic won the Sovereign Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Male Horse in Canada but injuries kept him out for the most of the 1990 racing season. Thoroughbred race horses The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known as a race horse. ... The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1978 located at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. ... Horse-racing is an equestrian sporting activity which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times were an early example, as was the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. ... The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (Triple Crown for short, but the term is also used in other sports, and thus the full name should be used when it could cause confusion) consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. ... The racehorse Nijinsky II (named after the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky) was a son of Northern Dancer and Flaming Page and a grandson of Nearco. ...

Back racing on grass in 1991, Sky Classic won six of his nine starts including the prestigious Rothmans International in course record time. The following year he set a new race record in the Arlington Handicap, defeated Fraise in the Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park and was second by a nose to Fraise in the Breeders' Cup Turf. However, his five wins that year earned him the 1992 United States Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse. Natural vegetaton dominated by grasses Grass is a common word that generally describes a monocotyledonous green plant in the family Poaceae. ... The Canadian International Stakes is a $2 million Grade I Canadian stakes race on Turf for thoroughbred racehorses three years of age and up held annually in October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. ... Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational is an American Grade I stakes race on turf established in 1977 for Thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. ... Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in the hamlet of Elmont, New York in Nassau County on Long Island (just outside of New York City). ... The Breeders Cup Turf is a Thoroughbred horse race on turf for 3 years old and up. ... Eclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse is a American Thoroughbred horse racing honor. ...

Retired in 1993, Sky Classic currently stands at stud at Pin Oak Stud, LLC in Versailles, Kentucky, Sky Classic has sired more than 50 Graded stakes race winners. Horse breeding is the process of using selective breeding to produce additional individuals of a given phenotype, that is, continuing a breed. ... Versailles is a city located in Woodford County, Kentucky. ... A graded stakes race is a term applied to a Thoroughbred horse race in the United States and Canada to describe races that derive their name from the stake, or entry fee, owners must pay. ...

Sky Classic was inducted in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1998. The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame was established in 1978 located at the Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario to honor those who have made a significant contribution to the sport of harness and thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. ...

References

• Pin Oak Stud Profile of Sky Classic
• Sky Classic's pedigree and stats
• Sky Classic at the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame