But one of his darkest days was the kidnapping and death of his prized horse, Shergar. Shergar wasn’t just a winner of the Epsom Derby, Britain’s most prestigious race. He was one of the ...

He's dead." He then hung up. There are several ideas pertaining to what happened to Shergar. One idea is that the horse did have some sort of accident while in a frenzy, and the men killed him ...

The death of the Aga Khan has evoked memories of one of the greatest sporting mysteries of all time - the disappearance of the wonder horse Shergar. The champion racehorse, owned by the Aga Khan ...

‘Shergar wins the Derby - and you need a telescope to see the rest.’ - Peter Bromley, BBC Radio, June 3rd, 1981. Forty years on, the taking of Shergar remains such a bizarre and shameful ...

But Shergar wouldn’t just make headlines in the racing pages. He became national and international news, but for altogether more sinister reasons. The horse was famously kidnapped two years ...

Nicknamed "Shergar the wonder-horse", the stallion was valued by Lloyds of London at £10m at stud. But he was taken by an armed gang from a stud farm in County Kildare on 9 February 1983. They ...

There was relief when it was announced that Shergar would be put to stud in Ireland and not, as many in the horse-racing world had feared, in America. As a result of his on-track glories ...

LONDON — Michael Stoute, one of Britain's most successful horse-racing trainers ... Stoute will be forever associated with Shergar, the 1981 Derby winner by a record 10 lengths who was abducted ...

Shergar: undoubtedly one of the best horses the Aga Khan has ... The Aga Khan inherited Charlottesville from his father, Prince Aly Khan, and the colt became perhaps the best horse to race anywhere in ...