Feature Stories        

Racehorse Owners

No. 1 of a series.
EUGENE RYAN and DON  - The magical attraction of horse racing and racehorse ownership is universal; it can strike like a hammer or descend like a cloud. It is a bug. <more>

No. 2 of a series.
LAR BYRNE and HARDY EUSTACE - To an Irish owner like Lar Byrne, with unbounded love and enthusiasm for National Hunt racing, money can’t measure the value of a winner at the Cheltenham Festival. <more>

No.3 of a series (part 1)
A WINNER FOR THE EDITOR OF allthoroughbred.com AND HIS DAUGHTER
ELIZABETH AT LAYTOWN!

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NASRULLAH, born 1940 in Ireland, died 1959 in Kentucky

The story begins in 1904 when His Highness the Aga Khan paid a visit to Lord Wavertree at Tully, Kildare (now home of the Irish national Stud). Lord Wavertree, a successful though unorthodox thoroughbred breeder, urged his guest to take up racing and breeding, but due to work commitments the Aga Khan was unable to get involved and it was nearly twenty years later that he decided to take up Lord Wavertree’s suggestion . <more>