Prix Lupin
Many Clouds was a "big, old-fashioned" brown gelding bred in Ireland by Aidan Aherne at the Windward House Stud in County Cork. He was one of several good jumpers sired by Cloudings, a son of Sadler's Wells, who won the Prix Lupin in 1997. Many Clouds' dam, Bobbing Back, has also produced The Tullow Tank, winner of the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle and the Future Champions Novice Hurdle.