An October 19, 1987 article in Sports Illustrated referred to White Skies as a "bullet" horse in the same vein as racing greats such as Tom Fool, Decathlon, Ta Wee, Dr. Fager, and Forego.
[2] Bred by renowned Lexington, Kentucky horseman, Charles Nuckols Jr., he was out of the mare Milk Dipper and sired by Calumet Farm's Arlington Futurity winner, Sun Again.
Purchased and raced by Kentucky tobacco grower, William M. Wickham, he was trained by former jockey, Tommy Root.
Regularly burdened with weights from 132 to 136 pounds, even when White Skies lost, the winner's time often had to be very fast as was the case when he finished second in track record time in the Oceanport Stakes to Robert L. Gerry's Master Ace at Monmouth Park.
On May 2, 1955, White Skies suffered a compound fracture of his right hind cannon bone during a training run at Jamaica Race Course in Queens, New York and had to be euthanized.