Azamour

Azamour
Sire	Night Shift
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Asmara
Damsire	Lear Fan
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	2001
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	HH Aga Khan
Owner	HH Aga Khan
Trainer	John Oxx
Record	12: 6-1-3
Earnings	£1,499,558
Major wins
Beresford Stakes (2003) St. James's Palace Stakes (2004) Irish Champion Stakes (2004) Prince of Wales's Stakes (2005) George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2005)
Awards
European Champion Older Horse (2005) BHB Champion Older Male (2005) BHB Champion Middle-Distance Horse (2005)

Azamour (8 March 2001 – 5 April 2014) was a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He won four Group One races including the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and was Europe's Champion Older Horse in 2005. At his peak, he was rated the third best thoroughbred racehorse in the world.

Azamour was a "powerful" bay horse standing 16.2 hands high. He was bred in Ireland and raced by the Aga Khan. His sire, Night Shift, was a son Northern Dancer who is regarded as the 20th century’s best sire of sires, while his dam was Asmara, a daughter of Lear Fan, a Group One winning son of Roberto.

Apart from Azamour, Night Shift sired many good racehorses in a long stud career, including the multiple Group One winning filly In the Groove and the leading steeplechaser Well Chief, as well as Lochangel (Nunthorpe Stakes), Barons Pit (Diadem Stakes) and Nicolotte (Queen Anne Stakes). Azamour's dam Asmara won the Listed Trigo Stakes in 1996 and was a half-sister of the Prix Ganay winner Astarabad. Apart from Azamour, her best foal has been Arazan, who won the Group Two Futurity Stakes in 2008.

Azamour was trained throughout his career by John Oxx at his base near the Curragh, and ridden in nine of his twelve races by Michael Kinane.

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