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Princess Zahra presented with the three-year-old Cartier Award for Vadeni 2022-11-11
Posted November 12th, 2022 by librarian-hdPrincess Zahra Aga Khan was presented with the Cartier Three-Year-Year-Old Colt Award by the Racing Post's Alan Btrne for Vadeni, who captured the Group 1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby and the Coral-Eclipse in addition to finishing second in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. The colt will remain in trainig.
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A Game of Chess with Nature - The Aga Khan Studs - 100 years of Excellence

One hundred years after the Aga Khan III made his first purchase at the Tattersalls July Sale, the bloodstock empire he built, and which has been carefully cultivated by his grandson, HH the Aga Khan IV, continues to thrive. Following Tuesday's first instalment of the early years of the Aga Khan Studs, the second part sees the baton pass in sad circumstances, heralding a major restructuring of the operation. The text is reproduced by kind permission from the Aga Khan Studs' centenary brochure, written by Emma Berry and John Berry.
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A Century of Excellence, Part II - The Aga Khan Studs
Posted October 20th, 2022 by librarian-hdA Century of Excellence, Part II
Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 11:20 am
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Vadeni shines light on sire Churchill after devastating Prix du Jockey Club success at Chantilly 2022-06-05
Posted June 8th, 2022 by librarian-hdOur industry expert unpicks the pedigree of Sunday's seriously impressive Prix du Jockey Club winner Vadeni.
As a dual Classic-winning son of Galileo, the first crops of champion two-year-old Churchill were highly anticipated.
Ladies Church was the first to score in stakes company with Vadeni joining her shortly after in the Listed Criterium du Fonds Europeen de l'Elevage at Deauville.
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Vadeni lands QREC-sponsored Gr1 Qatar Prix Du Jockey Club

Doha: The Gr 1 Qatar Prix du Jockey Club, sponsored by the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC), was run at Chantilly yesterday.
Carrying the prestigious silks of his owner and breeder the Aga Khan, the three-year-old colt Vadeni (Churchill) was spectacular when galloping to a five-length success in the top classic event.
Vadeni signed a magnificent eight success in the race for the Aga Khan, who, prior to Vadeni, last won the race with Darsi in 2006.
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Prix du Jockey-Club: the colt Vadeni offers a 9th coronation to the Aga Khan 2022-06-05
Posted June 6th, 2022 by librarian-hdWaiting in the peloton, Vadeni took the lead at the post for the last 400 meters then left his pursuers on the spot 100 meters from the goal to win very easily without his jockey needing to solicit him.
With a clenched fist and arm raised to the sky, Christophe Soumillon said at Equidia’s microphone, with a smile on his face: “When I saw that William Buick absolutely wanted to go ahead, I waited. My horse took the lead a bit early on and went completely flat. That’s awesome, I didn’t think he was going to do that“.
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Prix du Jockey-Club: the colt Vadeni offers a 9th coronation to the Aga Khan 2022-06-05
Posted June 6th, 2022 by librarian-hdWaiting in the peloton, Vadeni took the lead at the post for the last 400 meters then left his pursuers on the spot 100 meters from the goal to win very easily without his jockey needing to solicit him.
With a clenched fist and arm raised to the sky, Christophe Soumillon said at Equidia’s microphone, with a smile on his face: “When I saw that William Buick absolutely wanted to go ahead, I waited. My horse took the lead a bit early on and went completely flat. That’s awesome, I didn’t think he was going to do that“.
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A Century of Excellence, Part II 2010-06-06
Posted January 3rd, 2022 by librarian-hdOne hundred years after the Aga Khan III made his first purchase at the Tattersalls July Sale, the bloodstock empire he built, and which has been carefully cultivated by his grandson, HH the Aga Khan IV, continues to thrive. Following Tuesday's first instalment of the early years of the Aga Khan Studs, the second part sees the baton pass in sad circumstances, heralding a major restructuring of the operation. The text is reproduced by kind permission from the Aga Khan Studs' centenary brochure, written by Emma Berry and John Berry.
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His Highness the Aga Khan seen with Zeddan
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Aga Khan's classy stayer Vazirabad the newest ambassador for French retraining of racehorses charity 2021-08-24
Posted August 25th, 2021 by librarian-hdThe Group 1 action at Deauville came to an end on Sunday with the twin highlights of the Morny and the Jean Romanet, but French racing's summer by the sea has at least one more gift to deliver in the shape of Saturday's Racehorse Retraining day.
It is fair to say France was a little late to the party when it came to a unified approach to aftercare, retirement planning and linking up with what is a voracious appetite in the wider equestrian population for sourcing horses once their first career is over.
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2021-06-20-chantilly Prix de Diane Longines
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Hazar Imam attends the 2021 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly

Hazar Imam at Chantilly today for the 2021 Qatar Prix du Jockey. His horse Saiyadabad & Makaloun participated in the races. Saiydabad’s regular partner Christophe Soumillon has chosen to take the ride on fellow Aga Khan owned/bred Makaloun.
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Hazar Imam attended the Prix du Jockey event at the Hippodrome at Chantilly 1973-06-04
Posted February 16th, 2021 by librarian-hdKarim Aga Khan et La Bégum Salimah Aga Khan à l'occasion du Prix du Jockey Club, le 4 juin 1973 à l'hippodrome de Chantilly, France. (Photo by Jean Claude FRANCOLON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
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Chantilly Chateau

Prince Karim Aga Khan, president of the Foundation for the preservation and development of the Chantilly estate on June 22, 2012 in Chantilly, France. (Photo by Philippe Petit/Paris Match via Getty Images)
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The quiet revolutionary 1991-08-18
Posted August 8th, 2020 by librarian-hdThe quiet revolutionary
By Akbar S. Ahmed
The (Manchester) Guardian Weekly, August 18, 1991
Picture caption: The Aga Khan: paradox
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Simeen Scores in Prix de la Pistole at Chantilly 2020-05-13
Posted May 13th, 2020 by librarian-hdLope de Vega filly is now second favorite for the French One Thousand Guineas (G1).
he Aga Khan's Simeen is now just 5-1 for the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (French One Thousand Guineas, G1) with Coral and Betfair after getting up under a hand ride from Christophe Soumillon in the Prix de la Pistole at Chantilly on May 13.
The daughter of Lope de Vega is now 3-for-3, and trainer Jean-Claude Rouget believes she has a big future, even though she has yet to contest a pattern race.
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A rare interview with the Aga Khan on poverty, climate change, and demystifying Islam 2017-07-11
Posted January 27th, 2020 by librarian-hdHis Highness Prince Karim, the Aga Khan, is many things.
“Virtually a one-man state,” as Vanity Fair once put it, he’s the spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims and a unique embodiment of the potential for East blending with West. He inherited from his Indian-born grandfather a dynasty that spans the Muslim world, but he is a British citizen, born in Switzerland, raised in Kenya, educated at Harvard, and lives in a French chateau.
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Aga Khan puts the fate of France’s Château de Chantilly in doubt 2020-01-17
Posted January 19th, 2020 by librarian-hdOne of France’s most renowned châteaux is facing an uncertain future after the Aga Khan announced the dissolution of the organisation he created to save it from ruin.
The spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Ismaili Shia Muslims said he would wind up the foundation which has restored the Château de Chantilly, about 30 miles northeast of Paris, five years earlier than scheduled.
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Interview with Paul Chutkow - THE AGA KHAN'S VISION 1983-09-01
Posted September 2nd, 2019 by librarian-hdTHE AGA KHAN'S VISION - To him, architecture is not the mother of the arts; it is the mother of civilization
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