Stoute and Shergar - will we ever know?

Ireland - sorry about the crap typing

When nodding off after the pub the other night i'm sure i saw Lord Lucan riding it.

The conspiracy theorists will be along shortly to liven up the thread   

Still alive.

Still alive.

Thommo knows the truth.

Shergar mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j2BOygmBDY

I read he'd been filled full of bullets by the IRA, as they had no idea what to do with him.

Welcome back Mac , you not posted for a while or have i just missed them  ?

He ran in the Cheltenham bumper a few years ago...

Thanks Hayden. Been missing indeed. Not been well.

Glad somebody noticed lol.

Friendly posters , never abusive and with a lot to say will always be missed mate   

Thanks Hayden. Hope you and family are well. All the best mate.

Take a trip to Ballinamore Co Leitrim, and you won't be far away from Shergar.

How so G Hall 

General consensus that Shergar was taken by a renegade group of paramilitaries, whose actions annoyed the bosses of the organisation they were members of.

The renegades acted alone, but could not control Shergar and he had to be put down, after getting hurt.

I thought that Troy was a spectacular winner of the Derby but Shergar was the easiest winner I ever seen and remember Glint Of Gold who finished way back in 2nd was a very good horse in it`s own right.

I remember when it happened, Granada TV made a half hour documentary the week after he was kidnapped. I think the weekly documentary show was called TV Eye but it was a long time ago. It was very good and I`m sure Derek Thomson presented it. They should have paid the ransom imo. Load of rubbish refusing to pay saying it would have encouraged future horsenapping. The great horse deserved a long career at stud. Very very sad.

Sounds plausible, G Hall, though we may never know. It certainly sounds like a renegade action by a group who did not understand syndicated stallion ownership, who perhaps remarkably in rural Ireland had no-one who knew how to handle horses, and who'd not heard rumours of some in the racing game passing the hat round for the boys.

themightymac -- maybe they should have paid the ransom but who were "they"? The IRA did not seem to realise Shergar had been syndicated for stud and was no longer the property of a single rich individual but of 35 shareholders. Not to mention if they had paid, there'd have been copycats demanding protection money without even going to the trouble of kidnapping the hoss.