While the IRA, which has disbanded, took responsibility for a number of attacks over the years, it never claimed to have kidnapped Shergar.
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Shergar won like an Emperor but he hardly beat good opposition.
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In my view the greatest flat racehorses in the British Isles in the last 100 years were Mill Reef, Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky, Dancing Brave and Shergar.
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