AGA Khan IV, who in the game for six decades to carry his famous green and red colors, had in the dozens of champions, disciple, brilliant star -stars, shergar, and owned them. He died at the age of 88.
Shergar Classic was the most powerful Derby winner in the 202 -year history when he won 10 lengths under Walter Sonburn in Epsom in June 1981, but then from the AGA’s Bali Stud in County Cleader a The armed gang was abducted. In February 1983, barely a year after retirement from the track, which presented Shergar on the next pages of newspapers around the world.
It is believed that the group was a member of the temporary IRA, James Fitz Jerold, Shergar’s Stud Groom’s family at gunpoint, while Fitz Jerald was ordered to be taken to the horse box. After that, Fitzjirald was forcibly taken to another car and was run around the local area before leaving the roadside when it was provided with a code word that the kidnappers intended to use in negotiations.
The next day, there were the early chapters of a mystery that were not resolved for more than 40 years. A police investigation into the abduction rapidly fell into the circle of the fars, including an attempt to use a contender for a contender for Shergar.
Negotiations between the kidnappers and the owners of the Stalin also began – until that point, Ada Khan had only one minority because Shergar was syndicate in 40 shares – but after four days his attempt was accepted. No, when the owners did not accept his attempt. The kidnapper is still alive to prove that Shergar is still alive.
Shergar was never seen again and his last resting place is unknown, though, as a result of problems, several other hands of former IRA members have emerged, which seems to be a plot outline. It has been misunderstood from the beginning.
Specifically, members of a gang sent to a five -year -old child had no experience in handling a very fast, fully -growing Third Stalin, and an account shows that his kidnapping Shergar was later shot a few hours after his abduction and beyond control, before being buried in the remote mountains near the Northern Ireland border.
The loss of one of the Derby’s winners from Aga Khan’s growth operation after just 35 folds was an important blow to a boss bider who inherited a wide blood stock operation by his father in 1960 It was But they had a spirit of breeding. And the racing Thorbirds made sure that many residual champions race in its colors.
AGA Khan was the owner of five Derby winners – Shahsani (1986), Kaiayasi (1988), Sunder (2000) and Herzand (2016) were second – and four winners of the Perks de Ark de Trump, including the brilliant, 2008 I have an unbeaten flare.
There were also other moments of conflict, at least after the victory of Alisa in Oxy in 1989, Epsom Fills was the first event in Classic. The three -year -old youth was a simple and impressive three -length winner, but a month later, the regulator of the game, Jockey Club, announced that the urine test after Elissa’s race was positive for a taboo substance, Kamfar.
The rules of the racing were clear that Alisa had to be disqualified, and when its owner put a permanent legal challenge for the Joki Club testing procedure, the decision to run the runner -up, eventually in December 1990 Confirmed. , 18 months after Ox.
Aga Khan immediately removed all his horses in the UK, most of which were placed in the new market with Michael Stot and Luka Kamani, and its colors were absent from British rescue for many years.
Instead, he turned his attention to enhancing his racing and breeding works in France, where his residual Arc winner, Dilkhani and Zarkova were both trained, and also in Ireland, where the drummet weld – the harms The trainer – and John Oxax had important strings. Of horses in its colors.
The late Aadha Khan built on the legacy of his father – who was the master of the magnificent race mayor, Patelite Attile – and his grandfather, who was five Derby winners between 1930 and 1952, including Mahmud (1936). , Record time for his holder Derby winner for many years, and Toleeer (1952).
The daughter of Aga Khan IV, Princess Zahra Agha Khan, also a passionate owner and a breeder, whose winners include the 2006 pre -Vermelliel winner Mandisha. Green with its colors – Green with brown apples – mixed with your father’s silk with his predecessors – green and chocolate hips – and it seems that the family’s blood stock operations will be increased in the fourth generation.
