He owned stables, stud farms and an auction house, his horses winning ... He was retired to the Aga Khan's Ballymany Stud in County Kildare in Ireland whence the four-year-old was kidnapped ...

runs the largest horse breeding and racing operation in France, the French horse auction house Arqana, and a number of stud farms around Europe, including Gilltown Stud near Kilcullen in Ireland. 13 ...

Following the announcement of the death of His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV ... has provided Ireland with a world class Auction House to market and sell Irish thoroughbreds ...

After his retirement, he headed for a stallion career in Ireland, but it was there he was kidnapped from the Aga Khan’s stud, in what was generally accepted to have been the work of the IRA.