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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)

The quiet revolutionary
By Akbar S. Ahmed
The (Manchester) Guardian Weekly, August 18, 1991
Picture caption: The Aga Khan: paradox

Lope 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.

His 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.

One 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.

THE AGA KHAN'S VISION - To him, architecture is not the mother of the arts; it is the mother of civilization

2019, June 2: Princess Zahra was at the Prix du Jockey Club in Paris at Chantilly racetracks. Horses owned and bred by His Highness the Aga Khan and Princess Zahra Aga Khan have won 38 races in 2019

From: The Racing Post
Zarkallani was the surprise name to feature among 15 colts declared for Sunday's Qipco Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly having broken his maiden just seven days prior to the Classic.

Princess Zahra attended the Qipcco Prix du Jockey - also known as the French Derby - at Chantilly. Zallakhani with jockey Christophe Soumillon represented the Aga Khan's colours

France’s finest princely apartments at the Château de Chantilly are open to the public for the first time, thanks in large part to the Aga Khan

Jockey Christopher Soumillon and Darsi pose with H.H. The Aga Khan right, after they won the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly racetrack, north of Paris, Sunday June 4, 2006

Hazar Imam in His Chantilly office 1994

Hazar Imam celebrates His 80th Birthday at Aiglemont with His family 2016-12-13

His Highness the Aga Khan with his daughter Princess Zahra attending the Prix de Diane in Chantilly, France 2018-06-17

H.H. The Aga Khan wins the Prix de Diane for the 7th time 2012-06-17

On the auspicious occasion of the 81st Birthday of His Highness the Aga Khan IV

Vazirabad gets the job done in Cadran at Chantilly
Vazirabad eventually stamped his class on the Qatar Prix du Cadran at Chantilly.
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Vazirabad eventually stamped his class on the Qatar Prix du Cadran at Chantilly.

Hazar Imam interviewed after the win by Vazirabad at Chantilly in the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe 2019-09-30

Vazirabad won the 6:12 PM 6th Race with prize of $171,420 Prix du Cadran with jockey C. Soumillon.

H. H. The Aga Khan at the 2017 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe held this year at the Chantilly Hippodrome because Longchamps is under renovation. Princess Zahra Aga Khan also attended

He is one of the main actors of the Foundation for the preservation of the estate of Chantilly, created by his brother, the Aga Khan IV, in 2005. Anxious to make the place an essential cultural rendezvous, he transferred the legendary Plant Days, of which our magazine is a partner. Meeting with a nature lover.