Two centuries before Volume 1 of the General Stud Book, Gervase Markham had recognised the merits of the Arabian horse. His family had been associated with horses since 6th century Arabia, and his grandfather established a stud and stable in India in the nineteenth century. I would probably never have been known as an owner west of Suez had he not, during and after my visit to Tully in 1904, urged me to take up racing in England.”ĭespite his relative unfamiliarity with the English racing scene, the late Aga Khan III was no stranger to thoroughbreds. In Memoirs of a Racing Journalist, author Sidney Galtrey quotes from a letter in which the Aga Khan wrote “It was entirely due to Lord Wavertree and my personal friendship for him that I started to race on the English Turf. Yet his greatest contribution to upgrading the thoroughbred was to introduce at the turn of the century a young Indian Prince, the late Aga Khan III, to English racing. (Photo : BBC) THE AGA KHAN AND HIS FAMILY By Tony SweeneyĬolonel 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.
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