"I think everybody thought, like we did, that we'd never see the dog again, a bit like Shergar."

Kidnappers who took a star greyhound from his kennel demanded a ransom, the trainer has revealed.

One of the country's top greyhounds stolen in a robbery which was likened to the infamous kidnapping of champion racehorse Shergar, has been found safe and well.

Members of a criminal drugs gang are suspected of being involved in the kidnap of the best racing greyhound in the country, who was taken from kennels of a leading trainer in Golden, Co Tipperary.

The listings in the current edition of the RTÉ Guide announce that 3.30pm is “throw up” time in Thurles tomorrow. Two thoughts occur.

Broadcasting legend Peter O’Sullevan, who has died at the age of 97, was the man who provided the soundtrack to racing’s unfolding drama for nigh on 50 years.

In the end it was all very logical. 

A brilliant wrap of a schizophrenic season by our columnist.

At least Jackie Healy-Rae was partly right when announcing at the start of yet another TV probe into the Kerry political dynasty: “We’re like Santa Claus, we’re everywhere”.

Aidan O’Brien has three runners – Buonarroti, Century and Johann Strauss – as he goes for an eighth triumph in the final Group 1 race of the season in Britain today - the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster.

Senior Government figures may not have been heartbroken that the final chapter in our €300m planning report was published just after the lights were turned off in Leinster House for the summer recess.

The racing pundit who mediated with Shergar’s kidnappers has told how the IRA informer who claimed the horse was shot shortly after he was snatched knew secret codes used during the hostage talks.

DID you wonder how characters in the Jason Bourne movies get through airports and over frontiers without being caught?

Three decades on, the kidnapping of Derby-winning racehorse Shergar remains one of the great unsolved crimes in Irish history, writes John Daly

Doncaster’s atmosphere switched from heightened to distinctly flat within the space of three minutes as Godolphin’s Encke extinguished hopes of Camelot achieving a rare English Triple Crown in the Ladbrokes St Leger.

It has to be regarded as one of the bravest decisions ever taken by stewards in this country.

BEST known as the hilarious and sometimes outrageous Jake Stevens from RTÉ’s Naked Camera and Makin’ Jake, Dubliner PJ Gallagher is in Cork Opera House tomorrow night.

FRANKEL has been officially rated 4lb clear of the field as the best racehorse on the planet after the announcement of the World Thoroughbred Rankings.

AT HIS address on the opening night of RTÉ, 50 years ago today, President Éamon de Valera worried that TV might “lead through demoralisation to decadence and disillusion”.

HENRY CECIL will give Midday the chance to gain revenge on stablemate Twice Over in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on October 15.

WALTER SWINBURN is to quit the training ranks on October 31.

Walter Swinburn is to quit the training ranks on October 31.

HENRY Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mis-match in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood yesterday.

Henry Cecil declared Frankel to be the greatest horse he had ever set eyes upon after his colt turned the much-publicised clash with Canford Cliffs into an almost hopeless mis-match in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood today.

Workforce gave Michael Stoute his fifth success in the Investec Derby at Epsom with a brilliant performance under Ryan Moore.

HE wasn’t in good humour.

Above Average was set the task of emulating the likes of Shahrastani and Shergar by adding a Derby success to his gritty victory in the Bet365 Classic Trial at Sandown.

Political Correspondent Shaun Connolly asks is Hurricane Bertie in danger of blowing out.

The first major TV documentary on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern is due to air on RTÉ this Autumn.

OVER the years diverse theories have sprung up about what happened to Shergar, with everyone from Colonel Gadaffi to a New Orleans mafia outfit to Charles Haughey accused of involvement.

WHEN Shergar retired to stud, it was envisaged his bequest to the world would be a glorious lineage of racing legends.

The hunt for a stolen national treasure became a circus, but the quiet memories of a devoted groom are more revealing, finds Caroline O’Doherty

Tony McCoy was quick to express his delight after Kieren Fallon was freed to ride in Britain again following the collapse of the trial at the Old Bailey.

WAS Frank Dunlop’s horse any relation to Shergar?

Peter Chapple-Hyam’s impressive Derby winner Authorized heads 37 high-class entries for the £750,000 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on July 28.

Millions of spectators will tune in to watch the 228th Epsom Derby today as champion jockey Frankie Dettori aims to score his first win in the world famous event.

Septimus is 4-1 favourite with sponsors Ladbrokes to give Aidan O’Brien a fourth St Leger success in the last six years.

Michael Kinane looks set to resume his association with Best Alibi in the Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh on Sunday.

Tuesday could be D-Day for Kieren Fallon as to what he rides in the Vodafone Derby at Epsom on Saturday.

ANTE-POST activity on the Vodafone Derby hotted up with Visindar cementing his claims with an emphatic victory in the Group Two Prix Greffulhe at Saint-Cloud while some bookmakers have removed Hala Bek and Sir Percy from their lists.