| Horsename: | Embrujo |
| Sire: | Congreve |
| Grandsire: | Copyright |
| Dam: | Encore |
| Damsire: | Your Majesty |
| Sex: | Stallion |
| Foaled: | 20 September 1936 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Colour: | Chestnut |
| Breeder: | Haras Ojo de Agua (Raúl Chevalier) |
| Owner: | Caballeriza Los Patrios |
| Record: | 8: 6-0-0 |
| Earnings: | m$n192,000 |
| Wins: | Polla de Potrillos (1939) Gran Premio Jockey Club (1939) Gran Premio Nacional (1939) Premio General Pueyrredón (1940) |
| Awards: | Argentine Triple Crown winner (1939) Argentine Champion Three-Year-Old (1939) |
| Trainer: | Oscar Canay |
| Death Date: | 1952 |
Embrujo (20 September 1936–1952) was a champion Argentine thoroughbred racehorse who won the Argentine Triple Crown and became one of Argentina's most important sires of the 20th century.
Embrujo was bred by Haras Ojo de Agua, one of the leading stud farms of Argentina.[1] He was a chestnut horse with a stripe.[2]
Embrujo was considered handsome and was noted to have short cannons and strong hindquarters.[3]
Embrujo was purchased by and raced for Stud Los Patrios, owned by Clemente Zavaleta and Ernesto Pueyrredón.
Embrujo started racing in 1939 at age 3, winning his first five starts. These included the Gran Premio Polla de Potrillos, Gran Premio Jockey Club, and Gran Premio Nacional, making him the ninth winner of the Argentine Triple Crown. Embrujo made his sixth and final start of 1939 in the Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini, the final leg of the Argentine Quadruple Crown. He finished fourth to Romántico and came out of the race lame.
Embrujo returned to the races in 1940 with a record-setting win in the 3000-meter Premio General Pueyrredón. He next raced in the Gran Premio de Honor, in which he broke down.
After his injury, Embrujo was retired from racing to stand stud at Haras Chapadmalal in 1940.[4] In 1950, Embrujo was moved to stand stud at Ernesto Pueyrredón's Haras El Paraíso. He stood there for two seasons before dying there of colic in 1952.
Although he never led the sire list, Embrujo is considered to be one of the great stallions of the world and a premier Argentine sire. He made the leading sire list 11 times, and finished second in 1951 and 1953, third in 1950, and fourth in 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1954.
Embrujo was considered a magnificent broodmare sire and was the damsire of 38 stakes winners. His daughters are noted to have nicked especially well with Sideral, Gulf Stream, Tatán, and Make Tracks. Embrujo was second on the Argentine broodmare sire list in 1961 and 1965 and third in 1959.
Embrujo is inbred 3D x 4S to Persimmon, which means that Persimmon appears in the third generation on the dam's side and the fourth generation on the sire's side. He is also inbred 4D x 5S x 5S to St. Simon.