Canadian champion and millionaire DYNAMIC SKY was euthanized June 30 at Stolz Thoroughbreds near Edmonton, Alberta. The 13-year-old graded stakes winner had been battling laminitis. He was standing at stud as property of Cassandra and Dennis Stolz since 2022.
Bred by Arosa Farms in Ontario, Dynamic Sky (Sky Mesa – Murani by Distorted Humor) was purchased for about $30,000 by Mark Casse from the 2011 CTHS Ontario yearling sale. John Oxley raced the horse, who won a stakes race as a two-year-old, the Simcoe, and was second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland.
Dynamic Sky was one of the leading contenders for the 2013 Queen’s Plate following his Plate Trial victory under jockey Joel Rosario. He wound up third in the Plate itself as front-runner Midnight Aria upset the field by setting a slow pace.
Casse eventually moved Dynamic Sky over to the grass and that is when the dark bay began to blossom into a champion. As a four-year-old, the horse won the Red Smith Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct in New York and was second in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes and third in the Grade 1 Canadian International. He placed in several other graded stakes races on the grass and retired with a career record of 34 starts: 5 – 6 – 7 and earnings of $1,099,258.
Casse called Dynamic Sky, upon his retirement, the ‘most versatile horse’ he had ever trained.
Dynamic Sky first entered stud at Shannondoe Farms in 2017 before moving to Alberta to WorkWize Farm and then Stolz Thoroughbreds. From just 31 foals to race, Dynamic Sky has sired 18 winners including stakes winners Jilli Marie and My Girl Sky.
“Dyno was one of a kind and a class act, right to the end,” said Cassandra Stolz. “He was a champion on the track and in our hearts. He will live on through his foals, hopefully other champions to come. We will miss his spicy attitude and his amazing snuggles. He was the toughest horse there ever was; no matter how much pain he was in, and how much his body was failing him, he would have never given up.
“Dynamic Sky was a graded stakes winner, had multiple grade 1 stakes placings and was a winner on all three surfaces. He was truly special. If not for him, we may never have started in the Thoroughbred breeding industry, and we will hug his daughter Eviction Notice (the first Thoroughbred foal we bred) a little tighter. We couldn’t be more proud to say we owned this amazing stallion.”
More from Canadian Thoroughbred:
