Ectot

Ectot
Ectot before the 2016 Breeders' Cup Turf
Sire	Hurricane Run
Grandsire	Montjeu
Dam	Tonnara
Damsire	Linamix
Sex	Colt
Foaled	8 February 2011
Country	France
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Skymarc Farm Inc & Ecurie des Monceaux
Owner	Gerard Augustin-Normand & Elisabeth Vidal Al Shaqab Racing
Trainer	Elie Lellouche Todd Pletcher
Record	14:7-2-1
Earnings	£532,623
Major wins
Prix des Chenes (2013) Critérium International (2013) Prix de Fontainebleau (2014) Prix Niel (2014) Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes (2016)

Ectot (foaled 8 February 2011) is a French Thoroughbred racehorse. After finishing second on his debut, he won his remaining four starts as a two-year-old in 2013 including the Prix des Chenes and the Critérium International. In the following year he won the Prix de Fontainebleau and returned after injury to win the Prix Niel. He failed to win at four but returned to form when transferred to the United States in 2016, winning the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes.

Ectot is a bay horse with a white star and a white sock on his left front foot bred in France by Skymarc Farm Inc & Ecurie des Monceaux. He is the most successful horse sired to date by the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Hurricane Run who currently stands as a breeding stallion at the Getut Ammerland in Germany. Ectot's dam Tonnara finished unplaced in both her races but has become a very successful broodmare, having previously produced the St James's Palace Stakes winner Most Improved. As a descendant of outstanding sprinter Myrobella, Tonnara was distantly related to Big Game, Snow Knight and Chamossaire.

As a yearling, Ectot was offered for sale at Deauville in August 2012 and bought for €75,000 by Sylvain Vidal, part owner of the Haras de la Cauvinière. The colt initially raced in the ownership of Vidal's wife Elisabeth and Gérard Augustin-Normand. Ectot was sent into training with Elie Lellouche and has been ridden in all of his races by Gregory Benoist.