The daughter of stolen racehorse Shergar’s owner has spoken out for the first time about the Derby-winning legend’s kidnapping in 1983.
Princess Zahra Aga Khan, daughter of the Aga Khan, revealed the colt was killed ‘in an awful way’ and a ransom was never paid to stop the money getting into the wrong hands.
It is 45 years since the big bay with a white blaze won the Derby at Epsom by 10 lengths, a margin which to this day stands as a record for a race first run in 1780.
On the night of February 8, 1983, intruders broke into the Aga
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