Ahmed Zayat

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ahmed Zayat
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Aug 31, 1962(1962-08-31)
Age	62
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	United States
Birth City	Cairo
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ahmed Zayat Biography

Ahmed Zayat is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 31, 1962 in Cairo, Cairo, United States. Ahmed Zayat was born in Egypt in 1962 to an affluent family and grew up an ethnically diverse neighborhood in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. His father, Alaa al-Zayat, was a prominent doctor and professor of medicine, a personal physician to Anwar Sadat. His grandfather, Ahmed Hasan al-Zayyat, was a leading intellectual who established the Egyptian literary magazine al-Risala, described as “the most important intellectual weekly in 1930s Egypt and the Arab world.” Born into what was then a peasant family, the earlier al-Zayyat studied at Al-Azhar University before taking up legal studies in Cairo and Paris; he taught Arabic literature at American University in Cairo, and for three years in Baghdad, before founding al-Risala in 1933.

Zayat first began buying Thoroughbred race horses in 2005. Zayat Stables owns approximately 200 horses at any one time. Zayat made a number of big-ticket sales purchases early on including a horse he named Maimonides, purchased at Keeneland as a yearling in 2006 for $4.6 million. In addition, Zayat paid $1.6 million for the highest-priced horse at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, a filly by Empire Maker named Mushka, whom he resold in 2008 for $2.4 million.

Zayat continued to run Al-Ahram until 2007, but periodically returned to the United States, where he started buying racehorses and formed Zayat Stables in

2005. His motivation to return to the US was, in part, to commute less and be more involved with his family and children. Upon leaving Al-Ahram, he declared that he was “retiring”, but as his wife explained, “he can’t be retired for more than 15 seconds,” and he soon expanded his horse operation to include both breeding and racing stock. He still owns other business interests in Egypt, including being the majority shareholder of Misr Glass Manufacturing, which is Egypt’s largest maker of glass containers.

Zayat’s bankruptcy revealed other problems. His bankruptcy documents listed four loans he had made to members of the Jelinsky family. Two members of that family, Michael and Jeffrey Jelinsky, had pleaded guilty in 2009 to illegal bookmaking. As a result, the racing commissions in California and Kentucky opened investigations on Zayat; racing licensees are not to associate with bookmakers or convicted felons. Zayat claimed that he had no knowledge of the Jelinskys’ illegal acts. He stated that he thought the brothers were professional gamblers and that they had financial need. Further, he said he loaned them money because he knew their father and that the money they owed him was unrelated to gambling; he stated that some of the money he loaned was to assist one of the brothers with a divorce. He was cleared in both states. Although New York also stated that they were investigating, there were no news reports of any adverse action. Zayat stated that he had been visited by federal agents who played tapes where the Jelinsky brothers discussed how they had cheated Zayat out of money by giving him bad betting advice.

Zayat was born in Cairo, Egypt to a wealthy family, and grew up in an ethnically-diverse neighborhood where he learned to ride horses. At age 18, he moved to the United States where he attended college and ultimately obtained a master’s degree in business and public health from Boston University. After a brief career in commercial real estate in New York City, he returned to Egypt, and for about a decade ran the Al-Ahram Beverages Company, which he owned as part of an investment group. After the company was purchased by Heineken in 2002, Zayat stayed on a few more years but also began investing in racehorses and established Zayat Stables in 2005. Upon returning to the United States for good in 2007, he made his racing stables his full-time occupation, working with his son, Justin, to build the business.

Ahmed Zayat Net Worth

Ahmed Zayat is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ahmed Zayat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ahmed Zayat (/z ə ˈ j ɑː t / ; Arabic: أحمد الزيات ‎), (born August 31, 1962) is an Egyptian American businessman and owner of Thoroughbred race horses. He is the CEO of Zayat Stables, LLC, a Thoroughbred horse racing business which bred and owns the 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. Joe Drape of The New York Times described Zayat as “controversial” and “one of the most successful and flamboyant owners in thoroughbred racing.”

Zayat returned to Egypt in 1995 and formed an investment group, which purchased the Al-Ahram Beverages Company in 1997, outbidding Anheuser-Busch and Heineken International. Al-Ahram had been owned by the Egyptian government and Zayat had helped find American investors to take over government-owned businesses that had been nationalized by Gamal Abdel Nasser back in the 1950s. The original beer product was of poor quality, mocked as being able to “power heavy machinery if there was no diesel fuel available.” Under Zayat’s leadership, additional brands of beer were introduced, and he developed a non- alcoholic beer, Fayrouz, designed specifically for the Muslim market. The company was modernized from a run-down operation to a publicly traded business that sold in 2002 to Heineken International for $280 million, more than three times its pre-acquisition valuation, in what was then the largest corporate buyout in Egyptian history.

The horses of Zayat Stables began to earn race purses in 2006. In 2008, Zayat was North America’s leading owner by earnings. Zayat Stables ranked second in the nation for earnings in 2007, third in 2009, fourth in 2010 and fifth nationally in 2011. Between 2006 and 2014, Zayat Stables ranked in the top ten leading owners by purse money won in six of those years and always in the top

20. Zayat has horses at all stages of the racing process, stallions, broodmares, young horses in training and active racing stock. His daughters were the inspiration for the names of two race horses, stakes-winner Point Ashley, who in turn inspired daughter Ashley’s costume jewelry business name; and Littleprincessemma, dam of American Pharoah. Race horse Justin Phillip was named for Justin.

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Who is Ahmed Zayat Dating?

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While generally successful with his race horses, Zayat’s goal of winning the Kentucky Derby eluded him several times, including three second-place finishes, until his win with American Pharoah. He also filed bankruptcy proceedings in 2010 when a bank called a note due and tried to foreclose on his horses. Zayat Stables successfully completed its Chapter 11 reorganization, but Zayat was next plagued by legal issues related to his penchant for betting large sums of money on horse racing. Nonetheless, Zayat generated considerable positive publicity on social media for his efforts to save his racehorse Paynter from life-threatening health problems, a successful struggle that earned the colt the 2012 NTRA Moment of the Year Award and Secretariat Vox Populi Award.

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In an unrelated case, Zayat was mentioned in a 2013 lawsuit between Freehold Raceway and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority. The plaintiffs alleged that Zayat was allowed to bet on credit, which was a violation of state law. Zayat had been betting $200,000 a week through New Jersey’s online betting system, and the agency allowed him to “float” $286,000 in credit, “as a courtesy.” Zayat was not a party to the lawsuit and he paid off all debts owed to the Sports Authority. The records containing Zayat’s name were later redacted, but an internal email indicated that Zayat had wagered a total of at least $8.3 million.

Top Facts about Ahmed Zayat

1. Ahmed Zayat is an Egyptian-born American entrepreneur and racehorse owner.
2. He owned Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in 2015.
3. Zayat Stables has won over $70 million in horse racing earnings.
4. He was named the leading owner at the 2015 Kentucky Derby.
5. Zayat has been involved in several legal disputes over debts and taxes.
6. His son Justin Zayat is also involved in the family’s horse racing business.
7. In 2020, he sold his breeding rights to stallion Bodexpress for $1.7 million.
8. Ahmed Zayat has a degree in economics from Yeshiva University.
9. He founded Al Ahram Beverages Company, which became Egypt’s largest brewery.
10. Zayat was named one of Fortune magazine’s “40 Under 40” in 2002.