Harzand (horse)

Harzand
Sire	Sea The Stars
Grandsire	Cape Cross
Dam	Hazariya
Damsire	Xaar
Sex	Colt
Foaled	6 March 2013
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Aga Khan IV
Owner	Aga Khan IV
Trainer	Dermot Weld
Record	7: 4–0–0
Earnings	£1,535,850
Major wins
Ballysax Stakes (2016) Epsom Derby (2016) Irish Derby (2016)

Harzand (foaled 6 March 2013) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2016 Epsom Derby. He showed some promise when finishing fifth in his only race as a two-year-old in 2015. In the spring of 2016 he won a maiden race by sixteen lengths and then established himself as a potential top-class performer with a win in the Group Three Ballysax Stakes. On 4 June 2016, despite doubt about his suitability for the race and a late injury scare, he defeated fifteen opponents to win the 237th running of the Epsom Derby. Three weeks later he won the Irish Derby at the Curragh but he was beaten in two subsequent races and was retired from racing at the end of the season.

Harzand is a brown horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by his owner the Aga Khan. He is from the third crop of foals sired by Sea The Stars who won the 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 2009. His other major winners have included Taghrooda and Sea The Moon. Harzand's dam Hazariya was a high class racemare whose wins included the Athasi Stakes in 2005. She is a granddaughter of Hazy Idea, the dam of Hittite Glory, making her a close relative of Never Bend and Hethersett. Throughout his racing career, Harzand was trained at the Curragh by Dermot Weld and was ridden in all of his races by Pat Smullen. He usually races in a sheepskin noseband.

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