Sky Classic (March 17, 1987 – April 30, 2015) was a CanadianThoroughbredHall of Fameracehorse. A son ofU.K. Triple Crown championNijinsky, in 1989 Sky Classic won theSovereign Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Male Horse in Canada but injuries kept him out for most of the 1990 racing season.

Back racing ongrass in 1991, Sky Classic won six of his nine starts including the prestigiousRothmans International in course record time. The following year withPat Day riding, he set a new race record in theArlington Handicap, defeatedFraise in theTurf Classic Invitational atBelmont Park, but lost his two biggest races that year, a second in theArlington Million to Dear Doctor, and another second by a nose to Fraise in theBreeders' Cup Turf. However, his five other wins that year earned him the 1992 United StatesEclipse Award for Outstanding Male Turf Horse.

Retired in 1993, Sky Classic stoodstud atPin Oak Stud, LLC inVersailles, Kentucky.[1] He has sired more than 50Graded stakes race winners including:

• Thornfield (b. 1994) - 1999Canadian Horse of the Year
• Nothing To Lose (b. 2000) - Multiple stakes winner including the G1Turf Mile Stakes
• Sky Conqueror (b. 2002) -Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse (2006) Grade 1 winner in U.S., career earnings $1,720,699
• Hyperbaric (b. 2003) - won G1Citation Handicap, G2Oak Tree Mile Stakes

Sky Classic was inducted in theCanadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1998. He died in his paddock an Pin Oak on 30 April 2015.^[1]

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

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• Sovereign Award winners
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