Ezzoud

Ezzoud
Racing colours of Maktoum Al Maktoum
Sire	Last Tycoon
Grandsire	Try My Best
Dam	Royal Sister
Damsire	Claude
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	6 May 1989
Country	Ireland
Colour	Bay
Breeder	T J Monaghan
Owner	Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum
Trainer	Michael Stoute
Record	22: 6-5-2
Earnings	$753,866
Major wins
Earl of Sefton Stakes (1993) International Stakes (1993, 1994) Eclipse Stakes (1994)
Last updated on October 12, 2006

Ezzoud (6 May 1989- August 1998), was a Thoroughbred racehorse bred in Ireland and trained in the United Kingdom during a racing career which lasted from 1991 to 1994. He is best known for winning consecutive runnings of the International Stakes at York.

Ezzoud was bred in Ireland by T J Monaghan. Sired by the Nunthorpe Stakes and Breeders' Cup Mile winner Last Tycoon, he was out of the mare Royal Sister, making him a half-brother to the Sussex Stakes winner Distant Relative. His pedigree made him a valuable prospect and he fetched 360,000 guineas when put through the sales ring as a yearling. Bought by Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum, he was put into training with Michael Stoute at Newmarket.

He came to be regarded as a highly-talented but unpredictable performer, who usually raced in a visor. His lack of consistency sometimes made him unpopular- according to Richard Edmondson, writing in the Independent, he was "called more names than the fat boy in the school playground"- and he was a notably lazy worker at home.

Ezzoud (ازود) is an Arabic term which can be translated as "provider" or "I provide".

Ezzoud's two-year-old career was brief, beginning with a short-head win in a Doncaster graduation stakes (a race open to horses who have won no more than once previously). On his next start he ran in the highly competitive Tiffany Highflyer Stakes. The field of thirty two-year-olds included the future Derby winner Dr. Devious, and the inexperienced Ezzoud finished well down the field after racing prominently for much of the way.