In 1983, the Aga Khan’s prized racehorse Shergar was stolen from a stud farm in County Kildare in Ireland. The Aga Khan refused to pay a ransom demand, and the stallion was never seen in public ...

In 2009, Forbes put the Aga Khan among the 15 richest royals in the world and reported that the horse-racing enthusiast owned "900 thoroughbreds at stud farms in Ireland and France" and held a ...

He owned stables, stud farms and an auction house, his horses winning many of the great races across seven decades. AFP look at five things about the Aga Khan's sporting world. - Winter Olympian ...

Article continues below After his retirement, he headed for a stallion career in Ireland, but it was there he was kidnapped from the Aga Khan’s stud, in what was generally accepted to have been ...

He also beat Royal Anthem in the 1999 Coronation Cup (G1) and Breeders' Cup Turf (G1T) at Gulfstream Park, before retiring to the Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud. The Aga Khan inherited Charlottesville ...

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's 15 million ... the Irish Derby and the King George before being kidnapped from an Irish stud farm in 1983. A ransom was demanded, but no money ever ...

Kalamoun started impressively at stud only to die young, but that setback failed to halt the upward progress of the Aga Khan Studs. Oddly, the best horse to represent the Aga in the 1970s was one that ...