A descendant of the great Nearco through his sire Lord Gaylord, his dam, Avie, was a daughter of U.S.
[3] Racing at age three, on February 4, 1981, Lord Avie won the Hutcheson Stakes at Florida's Gulfstream Park.
[4] He was the sire of seventy-four stakes winners including Grade 1 winners Magical Maiden, Fly For Avie, and multi-millionaire Cloudy's Knight, who was voted 2007 Canadian Champion Male Turf Horse.
From his daughters, he is the damsire of 2007 American Champion Older Male Horse Lawyer Ron.
Due to advancing age and declining fertility, Lord Avie was pensioned after the 2002 breeding season at Lane's End Farm near Versailles, Kentucky, where he had stood since 1989.