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Shergar: The Complete Story of The Abducted Race Horse 2020-06-09
Posted June 10th, 2020 by librarian-hdOn February 1, 1983, TV-am launched on British TV screens. It was a fortnight behind the BBC’s ground-breaking Breakfast Time and the public had already shown themselves to be unsure about watching a news programme whilst eating their Cornflakes.
During those early days it looked like there was not enough interest to justify one televised breakfast show, let alone two.
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Shergar with the Aga Khan after winning the 1981 Irish Derby at the Curragh. Photo: Allsport
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Sporting Controversies: The brutal, sad and mysterious tale of Shergar 2020-05-12
Posted May 12th, 2020 by librarian-hdDark reality is of a beautiful animal being gunned to death by incompetent criminals
So much is crammed into the Shergar legend that the all but certain reality of this beautiful, blameless creature dying a horrible death has become almost a footnote.
The precise nature of how Shergar was killed has never been definitively established, the same as how much of what happened to the record-breaking Derby winner in the days after his kidnap from the Aga Khan’s Ballymany Stud outside Newbridge on February 8th, 1983, remains unclear.
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Shergar’s trainer reveals famous steed was ‘kindest horse’ he ever worked with in new TG4 doc
Posted August 28th, 2019 by librarian-hdSHERGAR’S trainer Michael Stoute has told how the famous steed was “the kindest horse” he worked with.
The Irish-bred thoroughbred was stolen from Ballymany Stud in Co Kildare in 1983 for a ransom of £2million, which was never paid.
The winner of the Epsom and Irish Derbys in 1981 — who was owned by the Aga Khan — is believed to have been shot by his IRA kidnappers after injuring his leg, though the organisation has never officially accepted responsibility.
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