Racing has lost one of its true gentlemen with the passing of former leading trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton at the age of 84. Fulke Johnson Houghton was born into the game as both of his parents were ...

Shergar won the Derby at Epsom in 1981 by 10 lengths in the ... "I had watched quite enough races to be able to determine ...

Thurles card was abandoned on Thursday after jockey Michael O’ Sullivan was air lifted to hospital following a bad fall at ...

The Aga Khan also courted controversy in 1989 when he withdrew his horses from England in a dispute over drug testing. Over ...

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including his former jockey Swinburn, have always insisted that this theory did not ring true because Shergar was a very calm horse and would not have been aggressive. The other story is that the ...

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 ...

Ten years on from an on-the-spot announcement at Newbury that he would retire at the end of the season, Sir Anthony McCoy reckons he would still be champion jockey were he back riding. Northern ...

Retired Irish jockey, Fran Berry, has told BBC News NI grew up in County Kildare and was born in 1981, when Shergar posted the remarkable Derby sucess. "He (Shergar) was syndicated for a world record ...

Shergar had won the 1981 Derby by a record 10 ... leader Aga Khan died at the age of 88 on Wednesday Retired Irish jockey, Fran Berry grew up in County Kildare and was born in 1981, when Shergar ...