Mahmoud (horse)

Mahmoud
Mahmoud in a 1937 photograph by Frank Griggs
SireBlenheim
GrandsireBlandford
DamMah Mahal
DamsireGainsborough
SexStallion
Foaled1933
CountryFrance
ColourGrey
BreederHH Aga Khan III
OwnerHH Aga Khan III
TrainerFrank Butters
Record11: 4-2-3
Earnings£15,026
Major wins
Champagne Stakes (1935)
Richmond Stakes (1935)
Epsom Derby (1936)
Awards
Leading sire in North America (1946)
Leading broodmare sire in North America (1957)

Mahmoud (1933–1962) was a French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career which lasted from April 1935 to September 1936 he ran eleven times and won four races. In 1935 he won two of Britain's most important two-year-old races and was officially rated the second-best colt of his generation. In 1936 he won only once from five starts, but this win came in the Derby in which he set a race record which stood for fifty-nine years, and became the third of only four greys to win the race.[1] After being retired from racing he was sold and exported to the United States, where he became a highly successful breeding stallion and was America's Champion sire in 1946.

  1. ^ "THIRD GREY TO WIN". Evening Post. 28 May 1936. Retrieved 2012-02-22.