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Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History) - Hardcover

Buch 2 von 14: Horses in History

Toby, Milton C.

 
9780813176239: Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case (Horses in History)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813176239 ISBN 13: 9780813176239
Verlag: UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland, to steal Shergar, one of the Thoroughbred industry's most renowned stallions. Bred and raced by the Aga Khan IV and trained in England by Sir Michael Stoute, Shergar achieved international prominence in 1981 when he won the 202nd Epsom Derby by ten lengths—the longest winning margin in the race's history. The thieves demanded a hefty ransom for the safe return of one of the most valuable Thoroughbreds in the world, but the ransom was never paid and Shergar's remains have never been found.

In Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case, Milton C. Toby presents an engaging narrative that is as thrilling as any mystery novel. The book provides new analysis of the body of evidence related to the stallion's disappearance, delves into the conspiracy theories that surround the inconclusive investigation, and presents a profile of the man who might be the last person able to help solve part of the mystery.

Toby examines the extensive cast of suspects and their alleged motives, including the Irish Republican Army and their need for new weapons, a French bloodstock agent who died in Central Kentucky, and even the Libyan dictator, Muammar al-Qadhafi. This riveting account of the most notorious unsolved crime in the history of horse racing will captivate serious racing fans and aficionados as well as entertain a new generation of horse racing enthusiasts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Milton C. Toby is an award-winning author, journalist, and attorney with more than forty years of experience researching and writing about Thoroughbred racing and equine law. He is the author of eight books, including Dancer's Image: The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby and Noor: A Champion Thoroughbred's Unlikely Journey from California to Kentucky.

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Verlag
UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813176239
ISBN 13 
9780813176239
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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