Aga Khan, one of the races the most famous owners – whose long list of champions includes Shergar – he died at the age of 88.
Born 13. December 1936, his Visa Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was the son of Prince Alyja Khan and his first wife Princess Tajuddawlah Aga Khan, once Joan Youde-Buller.
Aga Khan spent the early years in Kenya, before he attended the world-renowned Institute Le Rosey in Switzerland, where he studied when he became a spiritual leader of his grandfather in the death of his grandfather in 1957, at only 20 year.
His family has already enjoyed huge racing success, and his grandfather possesses no fewer than five Derbi winners in Blenheim (1930), Bahmoud (1946), and Tulyar (1952), while the influence of his large Mare Murtaz Mahal is still prevalent in the bloodstream Aga Khan today.
Aga Khan inherited those racing interests from his father after death in a car accident in May 1960. years, with the stars Filly and Dual Classic Winner Petite Etoile among them.
It was in the 1970s that Aga Khan really had a connection with Kopam, the construction of a new Stud in Normandy, Haras de Bonneval, 1973. Before opening the Aiglemont complex in Chantilly five years later.
The property includes a 100 box training center and the famous Les Aiglel Gallops, as well as Chateau where Aga Khan and the Office where its world business interests, which are involved in airline, hotels and charitable work.
KRVSTOCK KHANS AGA KHANA was built on domestic blood, although infused on the road with the acquisition of the late Francois Duprea 1977, and Jean-Luc Lagarders in 2005. year, accelerating rich prizes with Linamix Pastation Among the last appointed Series shopping.
The addition of new racers in the late 1970s transmits a return to Racing in England for AGA Khan, who in French campaigns in France, with Cheese Michael Stoute and Fulke Johnston Houghton handed some of his blonds.
The 1979 draft was probably the most famous horse ever to connect green and red silk in the form of a naughty winner of Derby Shergar, the Sensational Epsom Victor for 10 in 1981. And the top of five such winners.
There was a further epes of celebration for Stoute and Aga Khan in 1986. years, as Shahrastani held a seemingly irresistible accusation for the dance brave.
But the love affair of AGA Khan with British racing racing came to the fall, when his Filly, Aliysa, was disqualified from the 1989 oak. Years after testing positive for camphor, prohibited substance.
After a long battle with Jockey Club, Aga Kher, the Daughter of Princess Zahra Aga Khan was also a successful owner – withdraw all his horses in the answer to what he felt in British testing, with Stoute and Luca cumani losing a good piece of their wires as the result of the decision.
He finally finished his self-legged British race in Royal Ascoc in 1995. year, before sending horses again to train Cumani and Stoute, with the future Daliapour seemingly cementing the renovated relationship with cumannas, who trained him in 1988 . year Derby Victor Kahyasi.
However, their association came into another sudden stop in 2000. when two horse owners trained Cumani returned positive tests, and he asked to remove 30 horses from Italian-based newmarket.
He continued to have horses with stoomms, but the interests of Aga Khan are once again concentrated in Ireland and France.
2008 His shepored unbeaten champion Fill Narkava, he trained Alain de Royer-Dupre, won Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe and called Cartier Horse in the year. Five years earlier, Dalakan's trained Royer-Dupre, was just as stunning in the harbor.
In 2013, John Oxx would not be given a new series of AGA Khan years – leading to the end of the famous success that included Sinndar to not be forgotten Derby, Iry Derby and Arc Theble 2000. Years.
The Irish stars of Aga Khana were concentrated with Dermot welding, which in 2016 were given the fifth victory of Derbi, who was reckoning under the late Patma Smullen, despite the feet injury to the race day. Harzand continued to give Ago Khan's Peti Derby and Irish Derby double when he was stabbed in Curragh later the same month.
He welded and who also produced the last British winner of Ago Khan in 2024 Oak Victor Ezeliya.
Auga Khana's sports interests extended away from the race and was a highly derived skier who represented Iran in 1964 winter Olympics, taking in Slalom, Giant Slalom and downhill.
He was also a long-lasting friend of Queen Elizabeth II, giving her a physical assessment, who found him in the Royal Shop in the famous success in the Golden Cup in the Royal Ascot – a meeting where the couple was often looking together.
Significant Proponent of the Irish race, Aga Khan was one of the driving forces behind Curragh's remodel, which in 2019. year, which in 2019 arrived at the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to officially present a new Stand Aga Khan.
Aga Khan survived three sons and daughters.