AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- Largely thanks to Mumtaz Mahal, the Aga Khan, despite a numerically small stable, finished 2nd to Lord Derby in the leading owners' list in 1923 and twelve months later had garnered the first of thirteen English championships. 1924 was also the year in which he won his first English Classics - Diophon in the 2,000 Guineas and Salmon Trout in the St. ...
AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- From time to time the bloodstock sales ring takes on an electric atmosphere and the event itself becomes pure theatre. It was on such an evening in 1922 that Mumtaz Mahal was bought by the Aga Khan. The price of 9,100 guineas was not a record but observers agreed that the spotted grey daughter of The Tetrarch was the most perfectly formed filly ...
AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- Eight years later Cos achieved a still more remarkable success. It was a cool October afternoon in 1930 when Rustom Pasha, the second produce of Cos, and already winner of the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown, lined up at Newmarket for the last great weight-for-age race of the season, the Champion Stakes. His opposition included such fine Classic winning contemporaries as Diolite (2,000 Guineas), ...
AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- In the summer of 1921, the Aga Khan approached the Honourable George Lambton to ask him if he would take some horses. Lambton, not merely the trainer of thirteen English Classic winners, but also the author of a classic turf book, Men and Horses I Have Known, had to decline as he had a full yard. However, he agreed to buy some yearlings at ...
AGAKHANSTUDS.COM -- Colonel Hall-Walker, (later Lord Wavertree), a Liverpool businessman who had established his stud at Tully in County Kildare, bred the winners of seven English Classics and, by gifting his bloodstock during World War I, provided the genesis for two National Studs. Yet his greatest contribution to upgrading the thoroughbred was to introduce at the turn of the century a young Indian Prince, ...
