Episode 54: Racehorse Ransom: The Kidnapping of the horse Shergar

Today we are heading out to County Kildare, Ireland where the disappearance of a world famous racehorse has haunted the circuit since 1983. Today on The Odder, we are talking about Shergar, a six time champion, who was kidnapped from the stables at gunpoint and ransomed only to never be seen again. The last known picture of the thoroughbred and the horror stories of what happened to him and where he may have ended up still leave horse lovers, the media, and mystery lovers stumped to this day. So place your bets, and make sure all your racers are accounted for, and Let’s go!

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Hello and welcome to The Odder Podcast. I’m your host Madison Paige and today we are heading out to County Kildare, Ireland where the disappearance of a world famous racehorse has haunted the circuit since 1983. Today on The Odder, we are talking about Shergar, a six time champion, who was kidnapped from the stables at gunpoint and ransomed only to never be seen again. The last known picture of the thoroughbred and the horror stories of what happened to him and where he may have ended up still leave horse lovers, the media, and mystery lovers stumped to this day. So place your bets, and make sure all your racers are accounted for, and Let’s go!
Hey there my Odders, how is everyone doing today? How did we enjoy our last episode on the tomb of King Tut and all the curses within? Are all our organs still accounted for? Fantastic! If you really enjoyed it or if you didn’t, please leave a rating and review, they really do help! For the returning listeners, welcome back, for the new listeners, welcome welcome to The Odder podcast where we are a trail mix of all things unknown, unsolved, and just plain odd. If you have an idea for an episode you think would be fun, good news! I do listener requests so if you want your own personalized episode, you can send me an email at theodderpod@gmail.com. I’d love to hear from you and know what you want to hear from me! Well we have an interesting one for you today with a kidnapped race horse, a conglomerate of people fighting over whether or not to pay the ransom and a collection of conspiracy theories that all spell out a good time. I do need to slap a warning on this episode that there is a part where we do describe possible animal death that is gruesome as I will be directly quoting someone else's description of it. Now I will be including an in episode warning and this is only a brief description but it could be disturbing and upsetting to some listeners so know your comfort levels, if this isn’t the episode for you, no worries, we will see you in two weeks, if you choose to stick around, you can always skip over that section. And if you have chosen to stick around, prepare to be inaugurated into the horsegirl details of your dreams because we will be explaining and dissecting as many details of the horse racing and horse keeping vocabulary as necessary to make the life and theft of Shergar as clear as possible. So saddle on up, place your bets, and they’re off!
On March 3rd, 1978, a thoroughbred bay colt with a white blaze on his face, four white socks, and a single blue eye was born at the private stud farm of the Aga Khan IV who is an Imam or spiritual leader and businessman and owns and operates the largest horse racing and breeding operating in France as well as stud farms in Ireland and other parts of Europe. He was the offspring of Great Nephew, a British Stallion with wins such as the Prix du Moulin and the Prix Dollar and Sharmeen, a descendant of Mumtaz Mahal which was described as “one of the the most important broodmares of the 20th century” by the National Sporting Library.
To be a female of any species is to perform.
So before we get much further into the business of horse racing and breeding, some key things to note. Majority of racehorses have goofy names, nothing wrong with it, it’s tradition. If you’ve watched the derby ever in your lifetime, it looks like someone dropped the scrabble board on the screen. When you are naming a racehorse, there are actually a lot of rules. For starters, foals are not named right away.
When a Thoroughbred is born, they are typically identified with their mothers name followed by their birth year. In this case, Shergar would be called Sharmeen 1978 until officially registered. The foals typically get nicknames or barn names but Jockey Clubs or registries have to approve their official names but if these foals are going to be sold, they will remain unnamed until then so their new owners can go through the hassle and process of paying the naming fees.
The length of the name is also restricted and limited in character and syllables. The most recent limit is 18 characters and seven syllables. This is why sometimes you seem several words smooshed together into one in order to fit the character limit. Well known and popular names have also been retired and cannot be reused, like Secretariat and Seabiscuit, and no two horses are allowed to have the same registered name at the same time. There is also the naming right meaning that Broodmares hold exclusive rights to their names for 30 years or 10 years after they die and Stallions for 35 years or 15 after they die. The clubs will also not allow any rude or inappropriate names to be registered.
Owners can even reserve names without actually owning a horse. So when it comes to finding a name that fits the word count, has not been taken, and is memorable and passable, it can be a real challenge to pick a name.
Secondly, Thoroughbred is a horse breed that was specifically developed for horse racing. You will sometimes see this used as a reference to any sort of purebred horse but it is technically its own breed and are known for their agility, speed, and spirit.
Finally, Shergar was always expected to be a successful racer. He came from expensive and successful horse racing stock and was born on the farm of someone who was the preeminent horse racing businessman so this was an operation that already had a bunch of eyes on it when he first stood up on his knobbly horse legs and pranced about.
The Aga Khan started sending his yearlings, this is horses between one to two years old, for training to England with a highly successful trainer named Michael Stoute. Stoute had trained winners of the Oaks, Irish Oraks, Yorkshire Oaks, and the Gold Cup. Stoute was sent to Shergar in 1979 and reported that he had a good temperament and was quote “easy to break”. Shergar did well in training and in September 1980 was prepared for his debut race with Jockey Lester Piggott who was jokingly called The Long Fellow. At 5’8 and just 117 lbs, he was unusually tall for a jockey.
The Kris Plate was Shergar’s first race and happened on September 19th, 1980. Piggott was the Jockey and Shergar was the favorite with odds of 11-8.
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I’m going to give you the quickest run down of what favorites and odds mean in horse racing because we are going to touch on them a lot here.
A favorite is the horse that betters have bet the most money on. This horse will have the lowest odds. The “longshots” have the least amount of money wagered on them and will have the highest odds.
Odds are the amount of money you can expect to get back if the bet is successful. The amount of the odds is dependent on the amount of money that has been bet on the horse, or that is predicted to be bet on the horse. The more money, the shorter the odds.
It's a mathematical equation.
Shergar’s odds were 11-8. That means that for every 8 dollars invested, betters could expect a profit of 11 dollars if he won the race. Favorites win races about 30-30 % of the time but Longshots produce more profit on the rare instances they win.
Now that you’ve had your quick little betters lesson, we are going to run through Shergar’s races.
In 1980, he won his first race at the Kris Plate with 11-8 odds and the William Hill Futurity Stakes in October with an odds of 5-2 where he came in second place. In 1981, Shergar filled out, muscles wise, and ran first in the Guardian Newspaper Classic Trial in April with odds at 25-1 where he won first place with a new jockey named Walter Swinburn who was nicknamed the “Choirboy”. He then ran the Chester Vase in May with odds of 8-1 and also won. This knocked his odds down to 4-1 when he entered the 1981 Epsom Derby in June and won with a lead so large that one commenter stated “there's only one horse in it and you need a telescope to see the rest”. It was the largest winning margin of any Epsom Derby.
After this win, the Aga Khan was approached by a group of US horse owners who offered $40 million dollars to syndicate the horse.
Syndicating a racehorse is like buying shares in a company. Basically it means that a group of people are going to pool their funds to invest in a horse together and share the horse's annual costs. It is no secret that a racehorse is a huge investment. Not only are you paying for food, upkeep, and housing but also training fees, equipment, veterinarians, dentists, entry fees, and so on and so forth. Syndicate members also have control of the stud rights of the race horse and for a stallion as prized as Shergar was turning out to be, this was very interesting.
The Aga Khan turned down the $40 million and instead decided to syndicate the horse for $10 million at forty shares that cost $250,000 apiece. This was a record price at the time. The Aga Khan kept six shares for himself, and sold the other individually to buyers from nine different countries. The shareholders of Shergar had the option each year of selecting a mare to bring for Shergar to stud or to sell that option out. The Stud fee, should they choose to use it, was between 60,000 to 80,000 euro.
Between races in June, Shergar had an incident where while out on an exercise, he threw his rider, raced through a hedge onto a road and into the local village. He was found by a resident to be grazing at a hedge before being led back to the stables. He was unharmed by the incident.
Piggot returned to ride Shergar for the Irish Derby in June of 1981 and won by a landslide. In July, he also won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes. Swinburn returned as Jockey to race Shergar in the St. Leger Stakes in September but ten days before the race, a story ran in Sporting Life that stated that the horse was not practicing well and had become mullish. While Stoute disputed the rumors, on the day of the race, Shergar finished in fourth.
Surprised by the loss, a series of tests were run on the horse which showed him to be in good health but the decision was made by the Aga Khan to retire him to the Ballymany Stud farm. When he arrived, he was paraded down the main street of Newbridge in County Kildare. It was stated that Shergar was seen to have been a quote “national hero in Ireland and one of the most recognizable sports personalities”
In 1982, Shergar’s racing wear was hung up and he was instead put out to pasture with the mares, producing an impressive 36 foals. Overall, it looked to be an indulgent future for the former star racer and he was expected to make a whopping $1 million in his second stud season beginning in February 1983. However, this would never come to pass.
At 8:30 pm, on February 8th, 1983, three armed and masked men entered the home of the head groom of Ballymany. The groom, a man named Jim Fitzgerald, stated that one of the men told him “We have come for Shergar. We want 2 million euro for him”. They were part of a group of at six to nine men who locked his family into a room and walked him, at gunpoint, out to Shergar stable, before ordering him to load the horse into the back of a horse trailer.
Fitzgerald did as he was told and was then made to lay on the floor of a van and his face was covered with a coat. They drove him around for four hours before releasing him near the village of Kilcock which was 20 miles from Ballymany. The men grabbed him and told him not to contact the police or he and his family would be killed. He was instructed to wait for the gang to contact him and was given the code phrase “King Neptune” which would be used to identify themselves. While one of the men spoke with a northern irish accent and another seemed experienced with horses, none of them identified the gang they were affiliated with. They then released Fitzgerald and drove off into the night. He walked to the next village and called his brother to pick him up. When he returned back to Ballymany, the groom called Ghislain Drion, the manager of the Aga Khan’s studs in Ireland, told him what happened and begged him not to call the police. Drion does not know what to do.
This set off the mother of all phone trees. Try to remember that a lot of people own shares in this horse as we trickle through this as succinctly as possible.
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So Drion tries to call the Aga Khan but he's in Switzerland and there's no answer so he calls Stan Cosgrove. Cosgrove is Shergar’s vet and also a Shareholder. “Hey, Shergar’s been stolen, pass it on”. Cosgrove then contacts Sean Berry, manager of the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders Association and a retired Irish Army Captain. “Hey, Shergar’s been stolen, pass it on”. Berry calls Alan Dukes, a buddy of his who is also the Minister of Finance who says “Hey, you should speak to my buddy Michael Noonan, he’s Minister of Justice, he will know what to do ''. So Berry called Noonan who together with Dukes says “Hey, you know who you call when an armed gunman steals your property? The police. You should call the police''.
Drion is finally able to get a hold of the Aga Khan at 4 am who also says “omg yes call the police right now”.
So the Irish Police are finally alerted to the kidnapping of Shergar but it has now been eight hours since the theft and the trail has already gone cold.
Now here is where the ransome comes in and things get a little dicey.
As you remember originally, the men who took Shergar told Fitzgerald they wanted 2 million Euro but the first ransome call came in before the groom was even back to Ballymany and had told anyone of the theft. It was a phone call on the same night of the theft and went out to Jeremy Maxwell, a horse trainer based in Northern Ireland. The caller originally demanded 40,000 euro, a drastically lower sum that was later raised to 52,000 euro. The caller told Maxwell that any negotiation would only be done with three British horse racing journalists. These were Derek Thompson and John Oaksey of ITV as well as Peter Camplin from The sun. These men were told to be at the Europa Hotel in Central Belfast by the following Thursday evening.
The three men were contacted and told to go to Maxwell’s house to await further instruction. The police were involved at this stage and told the men that if they received any calls to try to keep them talking long enough to trace it. A series of calls rang through but it wasn't until 1:30 am that Derek Thompson was able to keep the caller on for 90 seconds, which was long enough to trace it. However, he was then informed that the person who was doing the call interceptions had finished his shift at midnight and gone home. This string of negotiations ended on February 12th at 7:00am when a final call came through that stated that something had gone wrong and that Shergar was dead.
The Syndicate that owned Shergar put together a committee that quickly determined that this ransome attempt must have been a hoax given that the call preceded Fitzgerald’s return to Ballymany so none of the owners had yet to be informed about the theft. While the callers did use the cope phrase “King Neptune”, the committee determined it was more likely that this series of calls was used as a way to distract authorities from what was happening with Shergar elsewhere.
While this first ransome call was going on, a second line of negotiation had opened up on February 9th in the form of a call directly to Drion at 4:05 pm. Now, Drion was not a fluent Englishspeaker and struggled to understand the caller as they had an Irish accent, which is kind of strange as he was the manager of the Studs in Ireland but bypassing that detail, but this apparently mattered little as the caller also struggled with Drion’s heavy french pronunciation. This short call ended quickly before a repeat occured ninety minutes later with Drion asking the caller to speak slowly. This time the ransom was demanded at the original $2 million for Shergar. They also asked for a contact number in France to make further negotiation and Drion provided them with the Aga Khan’s French office number. This ransome seemed to be the more legit of the two and while the other continued on, the syndicate focused its attention on this one. They brought in a risk and strategic consulting firm called Control Risks to handle the negotiations further.
These negotiations were done from the Aga Khan’s Paris office over a series of four days and on Friday, February 11th, proof of life was demanded for Shergar.
The thieves told the syndicate to go to the Crofton Hotel in Dublin and ask for any messages for Johnny Logan. This was the name of a famous Irish Singer. Stan Cosgrove was selected to be the one to do so and took along an armed member of the Special Detective Unit in an undercover role. He arrived at the hotel but found no messages waiting and returned home. The negotiators then received an angry call from the ransomers that they knew about the undercover police officers and threatened that if any members of the gang were captured or killed in this process, the negotiators and police would be murdered in retaliation.
On Saturday, February 12th, the thieves told the negotiations ,their proof of life was left at the Rosnaree Hotel. A package was picked up that contained several polaroid pictures showing Shergar. If you saw the sneak peek for this week's episode, that was one of them. In some of these pictures, his head appeared next to a copy of the Irish News dated February 11th. Shergar was confirmed as being the horse in the photo by Cosgrove although he did state, quote “It wasn't proof that the horse was alive…if you'd have seen the complete horse it would have been different, but this was just the head."
The syndicate talked to the thieves via the negotiations on February 12th, at 10:40 pm and conveyed that they were not satisfied with the pictures as proof. The caller stated “If you’re not satisfied, that’s it”. The call was ended and contact with the thieves was never reestablished. They attempted to request via the newspaper for negotiations to resume but the syndicate never heard from the ransomers again.
The syndicate had the motives behind the theft examined and concluded that the theft of Shergar was utilized to create confusion and publicity rather than obtain money since the negotiation fell apart so quickly. Either this or the thieves were naive. They believe that there was never any plan to return Shergar. They believe this due to several factors. First, several of the demands made during the negotiations were physically impossible to meet. This included the demand for the ransom to be paid in 100 pound sterling notes, a currency that does not exist, the original demand to Drion in Ireland at 5:45 PM that he deliver the ransome to Paris before noon the following day which would have been after the Parisian banks had closed meaning the money was unretrievable, as well as a demand when a negotiator in Paris was told to get the ransome agreed to but not to contact anyone in Ireland, although that was where many of the shareholders were. This actually highlighted that the thieves likely believed that Shergar was the sole property of the Aga Khan and did not know about the complexity of ransoming a horse with a syndicate. These shareholders had created their own problems within the ransoming as they all had their own opinions on how to respond. Keep in mind, there were essentially 35 individuals with equal claims to Shergar. The Aga Khan himself for example was reluctant to pay the ransom as he was unsure whether Shergar would be returned even if the money was paid, and concerned that, if the kidnappers' demands were met, that it would set a precedent for every high-value horse in Ireland to be a target for future thefts. This was a fear shared by several shareholders but others felt it was imperative to pay the ransom and retrieve their horse, leading to a lot of infighting.
So where were the police in all this?
Well after the eight hour delay in the phone tag game, there was also the disbursement of several horse trailers in the area due to a local Thoroughbred auction. Chief Superintendent James Murphy was put in charge of the investigation. Murphy was reported to be quite the character with a strong Irish brogue, often wearing a trilby hat and a dry sense of humor. In the first press conference about the kidnapping, he reported being “slightly concerned” but telling the reporters he had no leads. This was untrue as they had actually found a magazine for a submachine gun suggesting a link to an active IRA or Irish Republican Army service unit. In another conference when asked about any clues, he stated “a clue? That is something we haven't got” and after receiving several calls from noted divigners, clairvoyants, and psychic persons, as he called them, claiming to have contacted the police through their minds, Murphy complained about the number of them. At one conference, six photographers showed up wearing identical hats to him and he was labeled the “stage Irishman” by The Times”. After eight days with no progress, he was replaced as the investigation's public figure but continued to lead it behind the scenes.
On February 16th, several days after communication with the thieves had broken down, police released Fitzgerald's description of the horse trailer as being either light green or blue with no working lights or license plate. They enacted a massive search for Shergar in Northern Ireland but found no trace of the horse or trailer. They did however turn up several IRA caches or Arms and explosives as well as several safe houses. The case grew so large that at one point it was being worked on by over 70 detectives before the number was scaled back two weeks following the theft.
This scattering of ransom demands, cartoonish police investigation, and the loss of such an iconic racehorse led to a media firestorm of speculation. Some claimed that Shergar had been stolen by Libyan revolutionary Colonel Gaddafi as part of a deal to supply arms to the IRA. The Sunday Sport claimed that Shergar was seen being ridden by Lord Lucan, an aristocrat who had vanished following the accused murder of his family's nanny. Others stated that a middle eastern horse breeder stole him for a stud horse or that the Italian mafia had snatched the horse to get revenge on the Aga Khan over a previously fumbled sale of a different horse.
These speculations came to a head when a senior detective approached Stan Cosgrove to introduce him to a man named Dennis Minogue. Minogue was a horse trainer and claimed to have a contract within the IRA who had shown him a photograph of Shergar and stated he could help Cosgrove ransome him for 80,000 pounds. The detectives asked Cosgrove to help them in a sting operation to lure out these IRA members. He agreed and on July 20th, 1983, Detective Martin Kenirons took charge of this operation. Kenirons loaded money into the trunk of his car in a remote village that Minogue was to collect once the horse had been released. When he returned the next day, the trunk had been forced open, the money was stolen, and Minogue had disappeared. This led to Kenirons dismissal from the force but never resulted in any rescue of Shergar.
Another suspicion was cast on the syndicate. Shergar was a very expensive horse and each member had the option of insuring him. He was covered through several companies and policies and some of these included theft. Not all of the shareholders had opted in for this however as some had only covered Shergar in the case of actual death, this included Cosgrove, and some did not insure him at all, like the Aga Khan.
20 policies that had been taken out on Shergar that included theft were eventually settled in June of 1983. This was debated however by Terry Hall, an animal insurance agent with Lloyd's of London insurance broker who managed the majority of Shergar’s policies. He observed that while theft was one thing, the demand for ransom meant that the action was considered extortion, meaning that mortality and theft policies did not have to be paid out in this instance. Legal advice was sought by Lloyd's of London, who were told that although it was a gray area, they should still pay.
As you might have gleaned, the IRA has been the most widely accepted suspects behind the kidnapping of Shergar. This movement was formed as a way to combat British rule in Ireland using militaristic tactics, election boycotting, and arms dealing. To upkeep the movement, especially during this time, required an annual budget of between 2 to 5 million and the search for income was always underway. The way to acquire this petty cash was not always in the most blue book manner. In October of 181, the IRA was credited with the kidnapping and ransom of Ben Dunne of the chain Dunnes Stores for a total of 300,000 pounds although both the police and family deny they ever paid the ransom. However, the success of this feat is credited with the inspiration that led to the taking of Shergar.
In 1999, Sean O’Callaghan, a former member of the IRA and informant of the police published an autobiography where he credited the kidnapping of the horse to leading IRA member Kevin Mallon. Mallon was put in charge of raising several million pounds and devised the racehorse ransome while serving time in prison. A man who worked under mallon during the kidnapping told O’Callaghan the whole story two weeks after the incident and told him that Shergar had been killed early in the process after he panicked during transport, injured his leg, and no one present was able to cope with him. He was told that Shergar was killed within hours of his kidnapping but that the IRA kept up the deception of his proof of life in their care.
After the failure of the Shergar incident, Mallon’s grange attempted to kidnap a businessman named Galen Weston at his home but the police were forewarned and intercepted them taking down the majority of those involved in Shergar’s kidnapping without being the wiser. O’Callaghan stated that” the same team that went to kidnap Shergar went to kidnap Galen Weston. The men were arrested and received long prison sentences.
While there was some question about O’Callaghan authenticity as he was an informant and the IRA, who love to boast about their deeds never claimed anything to do with Shergar, a special investigation by the Sunday Telegraph in 2008 may provide more insight. Another IRA member, unnamed, stated that there was actually more to the story. The IRA didn’t plan on so much to go wrong with Shergar’s kidnapping. They had hired a vet to look after the horse but he had backed out after his wife had threatened to leave him. And remember how Aga Khan was one of the ones who refused to pay the ransom? Once they realized this wouldn't be a cut and dry situation, the claimants stated the IRA ordered the horse to be released but that the police investigation made it too dangerous to let him go anywhere without being caught. Mallon also became paranoid he was under surveillance and so four days after the kidnapping he changed the orders.
Now this is where I am issuing an in episode warning, I am about to read a quote that pertains to animal death that is graphic and may be disturbing for some listeners, bump ahead if you don’t want to hear that. It’ll be quick, about fifteen seconds.
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Mallon ordered the horse to be killed. The IRA source told the sunday telegraph that two men went into the stable with Shergar and quote “Shergar was machine gunned to death. There was blood everywhere and the horse even slipped on his own blood. There was lots of cussin' and swearin' because the horse wouldn't die. It was a very bloody death.”
Ok, are we all good? Alright moving forward
Like I said this source is unverified as the IRA has never publicly claimed their involvement in this crime. This could be because of embarrassment but some attribute it to the IRA not taking into account how much of a beloved public figure Shergar was. The public can kind of shrug and look away when a businessman with the money to cover it up is picked up and dropped back off with a potato sack on his head but an animal is oftentimes in the same category as a stolen child. It's innocent and it doesn’t help your political movement to publicly claim it’s kidnapping. Especially when it’s never seen again.
Shergar’s body has never been recovered or identified. If you google it, you will see some reddit articles and some such with a picture of a taxidermied horse that claim that it was found in a home, that is actually General Sherman’s horse and it is at the smithsonian museum.
Sources like O’Callaghan, The Sunday Telegraph article, and others claim that Shergar was buried near Ballinamore on the farm of an IRA veteran from the 1940’s where getting permission to dig would be almost impossible. Some hair from Shergar’s tail and mane are kept by Des Leadon, a specialist horse vet, in the hopes that someday Shergar’s skeleton could be recovered.
The Shergar Cup was inaugurated at Goodwood Racecourse in 1999 in honor of the missing champion and continues to this day. A bronze statue of the horse stands on the ground of one of the Aga Khan’s stud farms in Ireland. The story of the theft and ransome has been made into a film and two documentaries. To this day, people still wonder what happened to one of the greatest racehorses in Irish history who suddenly vanished off the face of the earth and has never been seen again.
Well, that’s all for this episode. So what do you think? Who do you think took Shergar? Do you think it was all an inside job? Would you be able to recognize your pet in a ransome photo? Let us know what you think on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and leave a review. The Odder Pod is also on TikTok. Come follow us there! Have a suggestion for a show? Send me an email at theodderpod@gmail.com with your request and whether you’d like me to mention your name, your alias, or nothing at all. Remember this is The Odder Side so give me something cool, creepy, or confusing to deep dive for you. If you liked the show, leave us a review! They really help! Please don’t use my podcast to gamble away your savings on the horses. The Odder Podcast posts every other Thursday. Thanks for listening and I’ll see you next time on The Odder side.

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Episode 54: Racehorse Ransom: The Kidnapping of the horse Shergar

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