Jim Fitzgerald, Shergar's former groom with a photograph of the prize bay stallion: 'He was a grand horse' It is 25 years since a world-famous racehorse was kidnapped by the IRA, never to be seen ...

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 ...

Kevin Mallon is pictured in the bookies on the anniversary of Shergar's disappearance A TERROR chief who was publicly accused of being behind the Shergar kidnapping nips down to the bookies on the ...

Exactly 30 years ago, kidnappers broke into the Ballymany Stud in the Republic of Ireland and stole the champion racehorse, Shergar. What happened to the animal remains a mystery. Shergar was the ...

Shergar, a beloved thoroughbred racehorse worth over $15 million, was kidnapped from his stable in Co Kildare by a gang of machine gun-wielding men in balaclavas. After failed attempts to demand ...

Shergar, a brilliant winner of Britain’s most prestigious race, the Epsom Derby, was taken from his stable in 1983. He was never seen again. By Victor Mather The Aga Khan IV, the wealthy leader ...

June 1981. Shergar, ridden by the 19-year-old jockey Walter Swinburn, won the Epsom Derby in spectacular fashion with a record-breaking lead of ten lengths. BBC commentator Peter Bromley yelled ...

Shergar and Walter Swinburn cross the line well clear to win the Epsom Derby by a record margin in 1981 (PA Archive) Although the big bay was just one of five Derby winners to carry the famous ...

‘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 ...