John Ingles looks back at some of the significant events of the racing year.Bittersweet year for Aga Khan Studs Racing lost one of its most recognisable, successful and enduring figures with the death in February at the age of 88 of His Highness the Aga Khan. However, it was largely business as usual for his bloodstock operation, with his horses continuing to race under the Aga Khan Studs banner managed by his daughter Princess Zahra. What a year it turned it out to be for the famous green and red colours. Still to make his debut when his owner died, three-year-old colt Daryz developed into a top-class colt by the autumn, winning the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, a race the Aga Khan had won...
