From the Telegraph:
Thanks for posting the link. It was interesting reading and filled in a lot of blanks.
i bought a movie at walmart the other day called shergar for 5 bucks it was really good at least i thought so
Oh man I shouldn’t have read that started choking up 
My dad was in Dublin at the time and remembers road blocks and the gardai searching the cars. He was like ‘do you expect me to have the horse in the boot of my car or something?’ :no:
Not for the fainthearted is right.
How awful. Just awful.
How sad, I guess we all expected something like this, but geez.
I rubbed a colt by Shergar’s Best. He was also very kind, smart, and easy going, not very fast, but he looked a lot like his grandsire.
How?
How can anyone do such a thing to any living being?:mad:?
Truly sickening.
That’s horrible.
I guess it’s good to finally have the whole story, but how can people do something like that? Though I guess if they were willing to do it to people, it shouldn’t surprise me that they’d do it to an animal…
I just watched that movie last night. How sad to read that article this morning, but it does answer a lot of questions. What a horrible thing to happen, it is just so awful!
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What a coincidence, I bought the same movie at Wal Mart and just watched it last night too. It was very interesting.
Wow. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. What can be said about the way Shergar was “done away with”? The same old words have been used and overused to describe what the IRA have done over the years. Doesn’t help chase the horror from my mind………….
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Couldn’t have said it better. Ugh. It’s always upsetting when innocents - civilians, animals, etc - get caught in a fanatic’s cross hairs. :no:
If this new version is true, of course it is very horrible. However I’ll remain skeptical on this new account which is tied in with a book and with it a basic financial interest in selling more copies by making it more titillating. It’s interesting as time goes on the ‘details’ become that much more salacious and wild.
Do I think he’s living in a meadow today untouched and unknown as was suggested in the Hollywood account? No. Yet there is no reason or logic to envision some bizarre modern day gangsta style description of execution as suggested.
Like many kidnapping stories (e.g. Helen Brach the candy heiress) tales of their demise become almost more fanciful and dramatic then ever previously entertained.
A book by IRA double agent Sean O’Callaghan previously suggested the horse injured a leg and was put out of its misery within days of the kidnap, although the Provos kept up the pretence he was alive.
But the new source says the horse was unhurt and was killed because his captors realised they were not getting a ransom. The hunt was so intense it was impossible to release him.
There is nothing new about this, except the supposed hail of machine gun fire, which I very much doubt myself. Everything else has been accepted for years, that he died within a few days of his kidnapping and that he was somewhere in Leitrim (the search was heavily concentrated in Leitrim at the time). With as many Gardaí were crawling aroung Leitrim at the time, it’s highly unlikely the provos would be spraying the walls with blood, and then have to drag the body to a hole in a bog.
is this really new news ??? i mean they pretty much figured out long ago that he was killed bc those i r s scum couldnt handle him. love the theory about him standing somwehere though esp in this era of blood typing/dna et al. he didnt deserve that treatment from that ira scum poor horse. HORSE SHOW DIVA DOT COM
I hope his killers meet a miserable end however he died. I hope it wasn’t like that but on the other hand these were probably not horseman. You have to get up close and personal to shoot a horse in the head with handgun and I would bet they were probably leery of a stallion. His disposition was one of the great things about him but I’ve always wished after that he was In Tissar, Festival of Light, Dynaformer, Silver Ghost and every other groom eating stallion all wrapped up in one. He’d of at least taken a couple out before he died.
A video look back for those who don’t recall …
youtube: RTE One - “20 moments that shook Irish Sport” #5 Shergar
Remember Shergar how he lived, not how he died.
That day in June at Epsom with young Walter Swinburn in the irons, scintillating, and romping home at the Curragh a month later with Lester deputising. Still gives me goosebumps 27 years later.
Dammit! That Epsom video has been pulled from YouTube. :mad: Any place else to see it?
