AGA Khan, one of the most famous racing owners-is a long list of champions includes Shergar-hasnned at the age of 88.
Born December 13, 1936, his highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was the son of Prince Aly Khan and his first wife, Princess Tajudadawlah Aga Khan, former Joan Yarde-Buller.
AGA Khan spent his early year in Kenya, before attending the Le Rosey Institute of Lawying School in Switzerland and moved to Harvard, where he studied when he became a spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims about the death of his grandfather in 1957, at the age of only 20 years.
His family has already enjoyed a great racing success, and his grandfather owned no less than five Derby’s Derby (1930), Bahram (1935), Mahmoud (1936), My Love (1948) and Tulyar (1952), while the influence is His great mare Mumtaz Mahal is still widespread in the blood of Aga Khan.
Aga Khan inherited these racing interests from his father after his death in a car accident in May 1960, with Star Filly and Dual Classic Petite Etoile winner among those who converted to his property.
It was in the 1970s that AGA Khan really conquered the Kopitar embroidery, building a new cold in Normandy, Haras de Bonneval, in 1973 before opening the Aiglemont Complex in Chantily five years later.
The property includes a 100 box training center and a well -known Les Aigles Gallops, as well as Chateau, which carried out AGA Khan and an office in which his world business interests were carried out, which included an airline company, hotels and charity works.
The Empire of Aga Khan Bloodstock was built on domestic ships, although on the way he inserted new blood, acquiring the stock of the late Francois Dupre 1977, and the late Marcel Boussac 1978 and Jean-Luc Lasenter 2005, responding to rich awards with Linamix Stalez among the last Buying series.
The addition of new runners in the late 1970s emphasized the return to the races in England for Aga Khan, who until then advocated his runners in France, and Sir Michael Stout and Fulke Johnston Houghton handed some of their blue colors.
The 1979 draft draft contained probably the most famous horse that ever had a green and red silk in the form of an unhappy winner of derby Shergar, a sensational Epsa Victor for 10th length 1981 and the first of five such winners.
Further, Epsa is the fame for Stout and Aga Khan in 1986, because Shahrastani held a seemingly irresistible accusation of dancing brave.
But Aga Khan’s love affair with British races stopped when his Filia, Aliys, was disqualified from Oaks from 1989 after testing a positively to Camfor, a banned substance.
After a long battle with Jockey Club, AGA Khan – whose daughter Princess is Zahra Aga Khan also a successful owner – withdrew all her horses from Britain in response to what he thought were missing in the British testing system, with Stoute and Luca Cumani Losing a good piece of wire as a result of a decision.
He finally ended his self -contained boycott of the British Royal Ascota races in 1995, before sending horses again to dress them with Cumani and Stout, with the future champion Kalanisi and Derby another Daliapour, seemingly a cemented renewed relationship with Cumani, who trained his 1988. Derby Victor Kahyasi.
However, their association stopped once again when the two ownership horses trained by the Cumani returned positive tests, which made him remove 30 horses from the Italian headquartered in New March.
He continued to have horses with Stout, but the interests of Aga Khan were again concentrated in Ireland and France.
In 2008, his shiny undefeated champion Filly Zarkava, dressed Alain de Royer-Dupre, won the Prix de L’Arc de Trijphe and was named Cartier Horse of the Year. Five years earlier that Royer-Dupre trained Dalakhani was equally stunned by the port.
In 2013, it was announced that John Oxx would not receive a new series of AGA Khan – which ended with a great success that included Singar, who never forgets Derby, Irish derby and onion tall.
Irish stars of Aga Khan instead were concentrated with Dermot Weld, who in 2016 gave the fifth victory of the derby with Harzand, who remembered triumphed under the late Pat Smullen, despite being picked up on his foot injury on the day of the race. Harzand continued to give aga to the fifth derby, and Irish derby doubled in Curragh later the same month.
It was Weld, who also produced the last British classic winner of Aga Khan in 2024. Oaks Victor Ezeliya.
The sports interests of Aga Khan extended beyond the race and was a very achieved skier, which represented Iran at the 1964 Winter Olympics, taking over the slalom, a giant slalom and a downhill.
He was also a longtime friend of Queen Elizabeth II, giving her an assessment of Filly, who continued her famous success in the Golden Cup in Royal Ascot – a meeting on which the couple would often watch together.
A significant supporter of the Irish races, Aga Khan was one of the moving forces that was the remodeling of Curragh, and the plan eventually brought to the fruit of 2019 when he joined Taoiseach Leo Varadkar at the time to officially discover the new booth of Aga Khan.
Aga Khan survives three sons and his daughter.
