Image caption, Shergar with the Aga Khan (centre) after winning the Irish Derby at The Curragh racecourse near Newbridge, County Kildare, in 1980 It was an audacious kidnapping and it made ...

Shergar in the packed winner’s enclosure at Epsom (PA) With Swinburn suspended he was ridden by Lester Piggott to win the Irish Derby by four lengths. But the young rider was back in the saddle for ...

We enjoyed many great days together but I would say our first Derby together with Shergar, when he was just 19, was an obvious one,” said Stoute.

We delved into the the ITV Racing Vault to find a classic Derby from 1981, where the late Walter Swinburn rode Shergar to victory at Epsom. Trainer Tom Gibney is doing his best to keep his feet on ...

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 ...

Ho, whose 2019 individual success came aboard Power Of Darkness in the Shergar Cup Mile for Group One Epsom Derby-winning trainer Marcus Tregoning, likes the variety that racing in the United ...

But Thompson's affiliation with Cheltenham and indeed the Irish at Cheltenham goes back a long, long time. "I remember a long time ago, I was leading a horse up when I was about 15 and stayed in ...

Shergar had won the 1981 Derby by a record 10 lengths and followed that triumph with successes in the Irish Derby and the King George. The colt had earned the right to be regarded as one of the ...