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The Aga Khan's brilliant three-year-old colt, Dalakhani, was named the Cartier Horse of The Year at the annual end-of-season Cartier Awards dinner held in London last night. The horse's list of honours already included the French Derby and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe before he landed the most prestigious racing award in Europe.
His trophies, for Horse of The Year and Three-Year-Old Colt, were picked up by his trainer, Alain de Royer-Dupre and Princess Zahra Aga Khan, who is taking an increasingly-prominent role in her father's breeding empire.

Dalakhani, who ran nine times and suffered his only defeat in the Irish Derby when he was beaten by the Aga Khan's Alamshar, has been retired to his owner's Giltown Stud in Ireland - where he was born - at a fee of 45,000 euros (about