WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 GARY STEVENS CLASSIC WINNER CLOUD COMPUTING RETIRES TO SPENDTHRIFT RETIRES FOR GOOD Cloud Computing (Maclean=s Music--Quick Temper, by A.P. Indy), who gave Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence and trainer Chad Brown their first taste of Classic success in the 2017 GI Preakness S., has been retired and will enter stud in 2019 at B. Wayne Hughes=s Spendthrift Farm. Bred in Kentucky by Hill >n= Dale Equine Holdings and Stretch Run V, Cloud Computing was purchased by bloodstock agent Mike Ryan for $200,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September sale, the top price for a first-crop yearling by Maclean=s Music. Winning his six-furlong debut in February 2017, the dark bay was second in the GIII Gotham S. and a deceptively good third in the GII Wood Memorial S. before grabbing champion Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) on the line at Old Hilltop (video). He earned a 102 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort, equaling the Preakness Beyer of American Pharoah and Lookin At Lucky while Gary Stevens | Horsephotos exceeding those posted by Justify and Exaggerator. The Preakness score came just 98 days after his career debut. By Christie DeBernardis Cont. p6 Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens has retired for the third and final time Tuesday after suffering a spinal injury during an IN TDN EUROPE TODAY incident in a post parade at Del Mar Saturday. The news was first reported by the Daily Racing Form. SHOWCASING ON TOP AS GOFFS WARMS UP AI would have liked to have walked away on my exact terms, A Showcasing (GB) colt topped the second day of trade at the but I consider myself very fortunate for the career I=ve had as a Goffs November Foal Sale on Tuesday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. jockey and that I can still walk with the news I got this morning,@ Stevens told the TDN when reached by phone Tuesday. AThe whiplash has moved my C4 forward and it is pressing directly on my spinal cord. I am waiting to hear back on when the surgery will be to relieve the pressure.@ As for future plans, Stevens said, AI=ve got several irons in the fire. The time was coming near anyway, so it is not like I wasn=t thinking about what I was going to be doing. I have a few things that I am excited about.@ Stevens scored his first victory at his home track of Les Bois Park in Idaho in 1980 and now owns a total of 5,187 wins, with 11 of those coming in Breeders= Cup races and nine in Triple Crown events. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, the 55- year-old won his first Classic aboard Hall of Fame filly Winning Colors in the 1988 GI Kentucky Derby (video) and his most recent Triple Crown victory came shortly after his last comeback in the 2013 GI Preakness S. aboard Oxbow, who, like Winning Colors, was trained by D. Wayne Lukas (video). 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When I think of my greatest pretty cool,@ Stevens said. memories in racing, Gary is always right there, front and center. The Eclipse-winning pilot also He is a legend in this sport and I navigated 1995 Derby and am proud to call him my friend.@ GI Belmont S. winner Thunder Stevens retired for the first Gulch for Lukas and took home time in 1999 with knee issues the roses again in 1997 aboard and briefly worked as a trainer the Bob Baffert-trained Silver and a jockey=s agent, but Charm, who also captured that returned to the track a short year=s Preakness. Rounding out time later in 2000. He retired his trio of Preakness winners is again in 2005 to work as an fellow Baffert pupil Point Given, analyst at NBC and was back in who captured the Triple Crown=s the saddle in 2013 after eight second jewel, as well as the years on the sidelines. Belmont, in 2001. Stevens also During his most recent rode Victory Gallop to an upset comeback, Stevens scored of Real Quiet=s Triple Crown bid several career highs. In addition in the 1998 Belmont. Some of Stevens winning his first Derby on Winning Colors | Horsephotos to winning the 2013 Preakness the journeyman rider=s other with Oxbow at odds of 15-1, the memorable mounts include Silverbulletday, Serena=s Song, Rock rider scored his long-awaited first GI Breeders= Cup Classic Hard Ten, Indian Charlie, Best Pal, War Chant, Da Hoss, Escena, victory aboard Mucho Macho Man (video). Macho Uno and Bertrando. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 21, 2018 AThroughout my career, Gary and I have had a lot of success and always made a good team, but particularly with Beholder,@ said Hall of Fame conditioner Richard Mandella. AThey had a real relationship and it was obvious in the performances she gave him. Her previous rider was insistent that she needed to go to the front and we always trained her to sit back and use her speed when we wanted, rather than just letting her run off on the front end. Gary and I, like I said, always understood each other well enough that, when he got on and I asked him to try that, it put her in a new league. I=m very sad to hear that he is retired again.@ Cont. p5 Stevens aboard Beholder | Benoit Stevens was also the regular rider of four-time Eclipse winner and future fellow Hall of Famer Beholder, guiding her to two GI Breeders= Cup Distaff wins, in 2013 and 2016 (video). Stevens climbed aboard Beholder for the first time in the 2013 Torrey Pines S., which they won, and together they captured a total of 12 races, seven of which were Grade Is, highlighted by her World Championship scores and an 8 1/4-length tour de force in Stevens (center) with Mandella (L) & owner B. Wayne Hughes the 2015 GI Pacific Classic (video). after Beholder=s 2016 BC Distaff win | Horsephotos TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 11 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • NOVEMBER 21, 2018 Gary Stevens Retires For Good cont. AI wouldn=t trade that decision I made to come back [in 2013] for anything, between Mucho Macho Man, Oxbow, Beholder, especially Beholder,@ Stevens said. AThe Breeders= Cup Classic was the one race that was missing and Mucho Macho Man got that trophy on the pedestal. Beholder was the best I=ve ever ridden. Everything has a reason for happening. It was a short five years. These past five years went by pretty quickly, I=ll tell you that, but they were the best five years I have had in my career.@ Stevens winning the 2013 BC Classic with Mucho Macho Man | Horsephotos Stevens won four graded stakes during the 2018 season, but the aforementioned trio of Oxbow, Mucho Macho Man and Beholder were certainly the highlights of his last stint in the saddle, which also included riding Firing Line to a second-place finish behind American Pharoah in the 2015 Derby.