The Aga Khan was a notable supporter of Irish racing and one of the driving forces behind the redevelopment of the Curragh.

particularly after he brought famed racehorse Shergar to his Ballymany Stud Farm near Newbridge, Co Kildare, from where the horse was kidnapped 42 years ago this week. The kidnapping and ...

but the Aga Khan will forever be linked to the fabled Shergar, the prized stallion believed to have been stolen by the IRA. As the revered head of the Ismaili Muslims, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini ...

Shergar was famed the world over - a horse that won the Epsom Derby, the Irish Derby, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and more. The horse was the centre of one of the great ...

HE was the billionaire philanthropist that King Charles counted as a close friend – and who made the late Queen’s horse ... Shergar after record 10-length Derby win in 1981Credit: Action ...

The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, head of a major development aid foundation ... He was also an owner of Shergar, the Derby-winning racehorse who was stolen from his stud farm in ...

with Shergar in 1981 followed by Shahrastani, Kahyasi, Sinndar and Harzand. The Aga Khan was a close friend of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, the pair seen here talking after his horse Harzand won ...

But his legacy is not only one of greatness on the track but also one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in the history of horse racing ... the home of Shergar. The kidnappers supposedly held the ...

He will be, in the public's eye, forever best remembered for the ill-fated Shergar, who clinched a mind-bogglingly easy win at the 1981 Epsom Derby. John Matthias, the jockey of the second horse ...

Shergar: undoubtedly one of the best horses ... and the colt became perhaps the best horse to race anywhere in the world in 1960. Trained by Alec Head and ridden by George Moore, he triumphed by three ...

Horse Racing Ireland paid tribute to the late Aga Khan, saying that Irish racing and breeding ‘will be forever in his debt’.