Taghrooda

Taghrooda
Racing colours of Hamdan Al Maktoum
Sire	Sea The Stars
Grandsire	Cape Cross
Dam	Ezima
Damsire	Sadler's Wells
Sex	Filly
Foaled	27 January 2011
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Shadwell Stud
Owner	Hamdan Al Maktoum
Trainer	John Gosden
Record	6: 4-1-1
Earnings	£1,476,101
Major wins
Pretty Polly Stakes (2014) Oaks Stakes (2014) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2014)
Awards
Cartier Champion Three-year-old Filly (2014) World's top-rated three-year-old filly (2014)

Taghrooda (foaled 27 January 2011) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2014 she won the classic Oaks Stakes and went on to win Britain's premier weight-for-age race, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. She subsequently finished second in the Yorkshire Oaks and third in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe before being retired at the end of the season.

Taghrooda is a bay filly bred by her owner Hamdan Al Maktoum's Shadwell Stud. She is from the first crop of foals sired by Sea The Stars. Taghrooda's dam Ezima was a successful stayer who won four races including the Saval Beg Stakes. As a descendant of the broodmare Evisa, Ezima was closely related to the Ascot Gold Cup winners Enzeli and Estimate as well as the Irish Oaks winner Ebadiyla and a more distant relative of Darshaan, Sinndar, Acamas and Akiyda. Taghrooda's name is a reference to form of chanted poetry used by the Bedouins of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The filly was sent into training with John Gosden at his Clarehaven Stable at Newmarket.

On her only appearance as a two-year-old, Taghrooda started a 20/1 outsider for a maiden race over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 21 September. Ridden by Dane O'Neill, she was towards the rear of the fourteen runner field in the early stages before making good progress to take the lead a furlong from the finish and won by a neck from the favourite Casual Smile.