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The Aga Khan and the mystery of mighty colt Shergar

RTE 05 Feb 2025
Shergar was lionised in the racing world for the manner of his Epsom triumph under the teenage Walter Swinburn, and to this day his winning margin of 10 lengths stands as a record for a race first run in 1780.
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Aga Khan dies with mystery of Shergar kidnapping still unsolved

The Guardian 05 Feb 2025
Shergar was the most emphatic Derby winner in the Classic’s 202-year history when he romped to a 10-length success under Walter Swinburn at Epsom in ...
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Death announced of the Aga Khan at the age of 88 | 'The Aga Khan was part of a golden age of owner-breeders'

Sporting Life 05 Feb 2025
The Aga Khan, one of racing’s most renowned owner-breeders – whose long list of champions includes Shergar – has died at the of 88 ... Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, the brilliant colt was an imperious winner of the Derby under Walter Swinburn ... .
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Aga Khan: five things about the prince of sport

Yahoo Daily News 05 Feb 2025
- Winter Olympian - ... Walter Swinburn rode Shergar to success in the Derby while Johnny Murtagh steered Sinndar to a brilliant treble in 2000, winning the Derby, Irish Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the space of a few months ... - Doping -.
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How the Aga Khan charmed British royalty, became a byword for unimaginable wealth and owned ...

The Daily Mail 05 Feb 2025
Shergar during the lead in by owner Aga Khan (top hat) with jockey Walter Swinburn after winning the Derby Stakes Classic at Epsom ... Read More ... Read More ... Shergar, ridden by Walter Swinburn, trots to the starting post prior to the Epsom Derby in England.
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Shergar, 4,000 winners and the Queen’s friend - Sir Michael Stoute’s extraordinary career

Yahoo Daily News 17 Nov 2024
In other sports you can be cooked by the time you are 50 ... He joined Pat Rohan in Yorkshire where, for three years, he was given a thorough grounding ... His 10 length Derby victory under a teenage Walter Swinburn remains a record margin ... .
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I was whipped during race – pioneering female jockey

Business Ghana 06 Nov 2024
... Hampshire and says her grown-up daughter Lara is amazed and proud of her story - a career which saw her ride against great jockeys like Lester Piggott, Willie Carson, Pat Eddery and Walter Swinburn.
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Sir Michael Stoute retirement: David Ord pays tribute

Sporting Life 10 Sep 2024
His partnerships with stable jockeys were enduring and special, the early days with Walter Swinburn, a golden run with Kieren Fallon and in the later years Ryan Moore settled into the hotseat and still returns to it whenever he can ... But not this one. .
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The Aga Khan Studs send best wishes to Sir Michael Stoute

Sporting Life 10 Sep 2024
The most famous horse to have passed through his yard is undoubtedly the Aga Khan’s Shergar, who won the 1981 Derby in the hands of 19-year-old Walter Swinburn by a record-breaking 10 lengths that ...
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Sir Michael Stoute's best horses on Timeform ratings including Shergar

Sporting Life 10 Sep 2024
Ridden by the 19-year-old Walter Swinburn, Shergar was sent on early in the straight and quickly set up an unassailable lead, finishing ten lengths clear of the Derby Italiano winner Glint of Gold with Scintillating Air third.
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Auguste Rodin bidding to give O'Brien a fifth King George

Sporting Life 24 Jul 2024
Sent off the 50/1 outsider of eight under Walter Swinburn after finishing seventh in the Irish Derby on his previous start, Risk Material never figured and trailed home last behind Swain ... .
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Dermot Weld and the Aga Khan at Epsom - 43 years later

Sporting Life 04 Jun 2024
The Aga Khan won the Derby for the first time with his outstanding colt Shergar, ridden by Walter Swinburn and, three days later, Lester Piggott provided his young Irish trainer Dermot Weld with his ...
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Simon Holt on the Chester Cup

Sporting Life 06 May 2024
One of the best of the species to win under three codes was the swashbuckling Overturn who, after scoring twice on the Flat for the late Walter Swinburn, racked up a catalogue of big-race successes ...
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Football super agent David Manasseh: I prefer jumping to Flat season as transfer window is closed

Yahoo Daily News 12 Mar 2024
What was not already in his DNA was augmented in his early twenties when, through the Queens Park Rangers footballer Don Shanks, he met Walter Swinburn, Shergar’s jockey, who got wind that, as a ...
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Billy Loughnane: Racing's Luke Littler on taking the sport by storm at 17

Yahoo Daily News 12 Jan 2024
Since 16 has been the minimum age for a riding licence we have had Walter Swinburn winning the Derby on Shergar as a teenager while more recently James Bowen won the Welsh National on Raz de Maree before he was old enough to take a driving test ... .

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