Shergar, a beloved thoroughbred racehorse worth over $15 million ... The stallion had a white blaze mark on his face, four white "socks" and a distinctive racing style of running with his tongue ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chief Superintendent James Murphy, nicknamed Spud, became the face of the public enquiry ... now and when you think about it, Shergar wasn't actually a racehorse at the time.
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 ...
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, was ...