2 days ago · The Aga Khan was news-media-averse and never had much to say publicly about the kidnapping. But there is little doubt it affected him: In 1983, he unveiled his new 150-foot superyacht, named Shergar .

2 days ago · Aga Khan IV, who bred and owned the magnificent, ill-starred Derby winner, Shergar, among dozens of champions to carry his famous green and red colours over the course of six decades in the sport ...

The Aga Khan, Shergar's owner, sent the horse for training in Britain in 1979 and 1980. Shergar began his first season of racing in September 1980 and ran two races that year, where he won one and came second in the other. In 1981 he ran in six races, winning five of them.

2 days ago · As tributes are paid to the Aga Khan following his death at the age of 88, the revered owner-breeder will always be associated with his mighty colt Shergar, the spectacular winner of the 1981 Derby.

21 hours ago · The Ballymany stud was owned by one of the titans of the racing industry, billionaire and spiritual leader the Aga Khan, who died this week aged 88. Shergar, however was syndicated out after the ...

2 days ago · The Aga Khan, one of a golden age of owner-breeders for European racing and owner of Shergar, has died aged 88. Along with the likes of Prince Khalid Abdullah and the Maktoum family, the Aga Khan ...

3 days ago · Shergar retired to the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland at the end of a hugely successful three-year-old career, father to one crop of foals before his kidnap in 1983 by what is widely ...

3 days ago · Shergar won the Derby at Epsom in 1981 by 10 lengths in the Aga Khan's emerald green racing silks with red epaulets but was kidnapped in Ireland two years later and never found.

2 days ago · THE AGA KHAN, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims and a notable supporter of Irish racing, has died aged 88. He was the founder and president of the Aga Khan Development Network, which employs 96,000 ...

2 days ago · The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, head of a major development aid foundation and a notable supporter of Irish racing, has died aged 88, his foundation announced.