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Sample Sire Last Tycoon Grandsire Try My Best Dam Flame of Tara Damsire Artaius Sex Stallion Foaled 1988 Country Ireland Colour Brown Breeder Kilcarn Stud Owner Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Trainer John L. Dunlop Record 7: 3-1-0 Earnings $471,029 Major wins Craven Stakes (1991)
St. James's Palace Stakes (1991)Horse (Equus ferus caballus) Last updated on October 17, 2007 Marju (Chinese: 馬足) (foaled March 12, 1988 in Ireland) is a retired a Thoroughbred racehorse bred by Kilcarn Stud and owned by Hamdan Al Maktoum. He was sired by Last Tycoon out of Flame of Tara.
Trained by John Dunlop, Marju raced 7 times during his career and was ridden by Willie Carson each time. He won 3 races including the Craven Stakes and the St. James's Palace Stakes, as well as finishing second to Generous in the 1991 Epsom Derby. He won a total prize money of £282,640.
He is a half-brother to Group One winner Salsabil.
Retired to stud duty, Marju has sired a number of stakes winners including the filly Soviet Song and the noted Hong Kong runners Viva Pataca and Indigenous.
Name origins
Marju is an Estonian name (as well as the plural partitive for mari (berry) in Estonian). Marju is also a name that belongs to the Fulah ethnic group in West Africa.
References
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- Thoroughbred racehorses
- Northern Dancer bloodline
- Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
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- Racehorses bred in Ireland
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