# The Disappearance of Shergar: The World’s Most Famous Racehorse

An episode of [The Troubles Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1500971966), 28 May 2024, 32 min.

Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR9862160650.mp3?updated=1721682790

It was a dark evening in February, 1983, when three armed, masked men arrived to the home of Jim Fitzgerald. His family were locked in a room. One of the men said to him "We have come for Shergar. We want £2 million for him." He was taken at gunpoint to a nearby stable where Shergar the horse was sleeping. The horse was loaded into a horsebox, and never seen again. What followed was a mystery which captivated the people of Ireland, and many around the world in the hunt to locate Shergar the world’s most famous racehorse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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