Shergar had been taken the day before Ireland’s biggest racehorse sale, and horseboxes were being driven across the country, making the task of finding the box containing Shergar impossible.

Shergar was never seen again. The crime was a shock: Kidnapping a star racehorse was almost unheard-of, before and since. “The whole thing seems like a fiction,” Prince Sadruddin, the Aga Khan ...

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 ...

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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 ...

O’Callaghan, who came from Tralee, was an IRA member between 1970 and 1985 and a Garda informant from 1979 to 1985. He died ...

When Shergar retired at the end of that season, racehorse owners paid £10m for shares in his services impregnating mares. But the dream of prestigious offspring was shattered a year later when ...