Alhaarth

Alhaarth
Racing colours of Hamdan Al Maktoum
Sire	Unfuwain
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Irish Valley
Damsire	Irish River
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	7 March 1993
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Shadwell Estates Co Ltd
Owner	Hamdan Al Maktoum Godolphin Racing
Trainer	Dick Hern Saeed bin Suroor
Record	17: 8-2-3
Earnings	₤372,241
Major wins
Vintage Stakes (1995) Solario Stakes (1995) Champagne Stakes (1995) Dewhurst Stakes (1995) Prix du Rond Point (1996) International Stakes (Ireland) (1997) Prix Dollar (1997)
Awards
Cartier Champion Two-year-old Colt (1995)
Last updated on August 25, 2007

Alhaarth is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire, bred in Ireland, but trained in the United Kingdom and Dubai during a racing career that lasted from 1995 to 1997. He was named European Champion Two-Year-Old at the 1995 Cartier Racing Awards. In his championship season he won all five of his races including the Group One Dewhurst Stakes and three other Group races. He went on to win the Prix du Rond Point at three and the International Stakes (Ireland) and Prix Dollar as a four-year-old. After his retirement he became a successful stallion and is currently standing at the Derrinstown Stud in Ireland.

Alhaarth, a bay horse with a white blaze standing 16 hands high, was bred in Ireland by his owner Hamdan Al Maktoum's Shadwell Stud. He was sired by Unfuwain out of the mare Irish Valley. Unfuwain was a high-class middle distance runner who won four Group races before siring the winners of more than five hundred winners at stud. Irish Valley, who never raced, was a half-sister to the Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner and Champion sire Green Dancer and in addition to Alhaarth, produced the Prix du Calvados winner, Green Pola.

Alhaarth was originally sent into training with Dick Hern at West Ilsley. At the end of his three-year-old season he was transferred to the Godolphin team and moved to the stable of Saeed bin Suroor. He was ridden in ten of his first eleven races by Willie Carson who retired at the end of the 1996 season: Alhaarth's Dewhurst victory was Carson's last Group One win in Britain. Alhaarth means "the tiller" in Arabic.