Christophe Clement

Birth Date: Monday, November 1, 1965
Birth Place: Paris, France

2011 Gulfstream Record
Starts 1st 2nd 3rd Earnings
61 15 11 7 $636,825

Career: He won three stakes last winter with Longhunter (Alligator Alley), Adirondack Summer (Dania Beach) and Stormy Publisher (Ladies Turf Sprint). He won the Sword Dancer (G1) at Saratoga with Winchester. Other graded winners in 2011 included Giants Play, Right One and Cheetah. Saddled Gio Ponti to victories in 2010 Shadwell Turf Mile and Man O’War before finishing second to Goldikova in Breeders’ Cup Mile....Clement’s has 16 victories in Gulfstream’s stakes for females on grass, including four wins in the Suwannee River and six wins in the Orchid Handicap. He is also a three-time winner of South Florida’s top turf race for males, the Gulfstream Park Turf ... Saddled Correta to runner-up finish in the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream in 1999 … His best dirt runner in recent years has been Dynever, who won the 2003 Aventura Stakes, finished third in that year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic and was second in the  2005 Hal’s Hope Handicap ... Sent out Proud Man to win 2004 Sunshine Millions Turf … Other top runners have included Danish, Flag Down, Forbidden Apple, Honor Glide, In Summation, Rutherienne, Gio Ponti, Voodoo Dancer, and Sporting Art, who won the 2008 Palm Beach Stakes … Calls his 1992 win in what was then called the Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup Handicap with Passagere du Soir, "By far the most important in my career."  Other: Is the son of successful European trainer Miguel and brother of Nicolas Clement who saddled Saumerez to capture the 1990 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe … Apprenticed under Luca Cumani and Alec Head in Europe and Shug McGaughey in the U.S. before starting his own stable in 1991 … Won with the first horse he saddled, Spectaculaire, at Belmont Park on Oct. 20, 1991. Website: www.clementstable.com