The 2025 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup will feature jockeys from 10 different countries, with Katie Davis, Delphine Santiago and Joanna Mason completing the line up for the team event which takes place ...

The 2025 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup will feature jockeys from 10 different countries as leading riders Katie Davis, Delphine ...

He is one of the most decorated jockeys in Indian horse racing history and now Suraj Narredu is on the cusp of perhaps one of ...

Shergar at his stables in Newmarket, England in 1980. | Steve Powell, Allsport/Getty Images A little later that evening, a call came into the offices of the BBC in Belfast.

Sadly, gentle Shergar did not get the happy ending he deserved, and, shortly before 8pm on February 8, 1983, the five-year-old horse was kidnapped from his stable in Kildare, just as he was ...

After a promising season as a two-year-old, Shergar, owned by the Aga Khan and trained by Michael Stoute, was targeted at the 1981 Epsom Derby, amid a growing confidence in its prospects.

SHERGAR’S kidnapping in 1983 was “a good stroke” for the IRA, a former figure in the organisation has claimed. Kieran Conway, who was an intelligence officer with the Provos at the time of ...

Nashwan was a truly exceptional three-year-old. Trained by Major Dick Hern, he remains the only horse to have won the 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse and King George in one season. It was a slow gallop ...

Shergar, ridden by the 19-year-old jockey Walter Swinburn, won the Epsom Derby in spectacular fashion with a record-breaking lead of ten lengths. BBC commentator Peter Bromley yelled: 'There's ...

Shergar was owned by a syndicate of 34 people, each with a share worth £250,000 ($394,000). The syndicate refused to pay the ransom, fearing it would encourage other kidnappings.