AGA KHAN’S SINNDAR DIES AT 21

Sinndar, the only horse to win the Epsom Derby, Gr.1, the Irish Derby, Gr.1 and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Gr.1 in the same season, has died at the age of 21, and he will be surely be missed at his owner, the Aga Khan’s Haras d’Ouilly. Trained at the Curragh by John Oxx, Sinndar gave a hint as to how great he was to be when he won the National Stakes, Gr.1 at the age of 2. But none, not even his trainer hand any idea as to how great a career he was to have. The only defeat of his eight race career was when at 3 he was second in the then Listed Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown. However that was the start of an extraordinary season that brought Sinndar, his owner, trainer John Oxx and jockey John Murtagh unprecedented glory.
Bred by the Aga Khan at his Irish base of Gilltown Stud, Sinndar was by Grand Lodge out of Sinnatra, a daughter of Lashkari, and hailed from one of the families the Aga Khan acquired from the late Marcel Boussac. It was one of the less fashionable pedigrees which His highness gained but Sinndar exemplified Tony Morris’s creed that performance proves pedigrees and not the other way round.