after making an unsuccessful return to racing in August 2017. Almanzor is a bay horse with no white markings bred in Normandy by the Haras d'Etreham...

al-Manṣūr (Arabic: المنصور, "the Victorious"), which is often Latinized as Almanzor in Spanish, Almansor in Catalan and Almançor in Portuguese (c. 938 – 8...

between 50,000 and 90,000 under Almanzor. Scholars have argued Almanzor's armies could muster 600,000 laborers and 200,000 horses "drawn from all provinces...

behind The Perfect Pink, Shepherd's Delight and Belle En Rouge 2022 2nd Almanzor Trophy (G3 1200m, Ellerslie) behind Sword Of State, with Wewillrock third...

before returning to form to win the Epsom Derby. He went on to defeat older horses in the Coral-Eclipse and the Juddmonte International Stakes. City of Troy...

Timeform raised its provisional rating to 147, making him the highest-rated horse in the organisation's history. In January 2013 Timeform announced that his...

description of him as "the poor king tormented in life by the sword of Almanzor and in death by the vengeful pen of a bishop." Pelagius of Oviedo (died...

to the Catholic Monarchs. In the late 10th century, the Umayyad vizier Almanzor waged a series of military campaigns for 30 years in order to subjugate...

surgery earlier that year. Galileo was a 16 1⁄2 hh (64.5 inches, 164 cm) bay horse with a narrow white blaze and a white sock on his near hind leg. He was...

The Cartier Racing Awards are awards in European horse racing, founded in 1991, and sponsored by Cartier. The award winners are decided by points earned...

modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock. The other two founders were the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk. This bay Arabian horse was bought in Aleppo...

October 2022. "Cartier Awards: Rock of Gibraltar is European Horse of the Year". Blood Horse. Retrieved 24 October 2022. "Rock of Gibraltar – the racehorse...

Blood-Horse. "King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes result". Timeform. 23 July 2016. Lewis Porteous (10 September 2016). "French Derby hero Almanzor just...

struggle three furlongs out and finished eighth behind the French colt Almanzor. A veterinary examination revealed that he had been "struck into" during...

April 1996 – 29 March 2012) was an Irish-bred, French-trained thoroughbred horse racing racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from September...

hajib Almanzor. The battle, "tremendous and difficult to describe", was a victory for Almanzor. The battle is listed as the fifty-second of Almanzor's career...

behind Harzand and Minding in a twelve-runner field which also included Almanzor, New Bay, Highland Reel and Hawkbill. In this race she was ridden for the...

by providing his horse poor feed. When the animal collapses in battle, García is severely injured, and dies days later. After Almanzor forces her son,...

the three horses (Daur and Khurzuk). A second equestrian climb was made in August 1999 by the same Karachai riders, with a Karachai horse (Igilik), reaching...

favourite behind Harzand in a twelve-runner field which also included Found, Almanzor, New Bay, Highland Reel and Hawkbill. After racing in mid-division she...

purchased by Coolmore Stud in Ireland in 2020. Wootton Bassett is a bay horse with a small white star bred in England by the Hertfordshire-based Laundry...

(1987), Indian Skimmer (1988), Pilsudski (1997), New Approach (2008), Almanzor (2016) and Magical (2019). The race has produced two further winners of...

outpaced in the straight and finished eighth of the ten runners behind Almanzor. US Army Ranger began his four-year-old season by running third to Air...

Jean-Luc Lagardère in 2010. Wootton Bassett's other foals have included Almanzor and Audarya. Wooded's dam Frida La Blonde showed no racing ability, failing...

as the center of government under the rule of Ibn Abi Amir al-Mansur (Almanzor). Between 1010 and 1013 it was sacked during a civil war and thereafter...

Furthermore, the Racing Post had not even included him in their list of horses for the 1993 Ten-to-Follow on the flat competition. Commander in Chief was...

early stages he stayed on strongly in the straight to finish third behind Almanzor and Found. On his first appearance as a five-year-old Jack Hobbs was sent...

was from the second crop of foals sired by Kingman who was named Cartier Horse of the Year in 2014 when he won the Irish 2,000 Guineas, St James's Palace...

Calatañazor Battle where the Christian kings of Spain defeated Saracens under Almanzor, who is said to have died of wounds received in this battle. 1003 Battle...

in France) was the European Three-Year-Old Champion Thoroughbred race horse in 2004. Bred by the Niarchos family, Bago is best known for winning the...