Who Kidnapped Shergar? The Mystery of the World’s Most Famous Racehorse - How It All Played Out

Elis James and John Robins on Radio X Podcast

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4.9 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

"Is he in?"

For this episode of How It All Played Out, Mark and Paul travel to the home of Head Groom Jim Fitzgerald on a stormy night in County Kildare in the Republic of Ireland and investigate one of the most shocking stories from the 1980s - The kidnapping of racehorse Shergar.

This story involves the IRA, a ransom of 2 million pounds and a mystery that is still to be solved.

From masked gunmen with submachine guns, fraud, rumours, Irish country policemen and three leading journalists being flown to Belfast to negotiate Shergar's safe return, travel back in time to explore a bizarre sporting story like no other.

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