Darshaan
Darshaan (18 April 1981 – 21 May 2001) was a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and a Champion sire and broodmare sire.
Background
Darshaan was a brown horse bred by his owner Aga Khan IV. He was sired by the British stallion Shirley Heights, winner of the 1978 Epsom Derby and the last Epsom Derby winner to be both the son of a previous winner, Mill Reef (1971), and the sire of a subsequent winner, Slip Anchor (1985). Darshaan's dam Delsy, was a daughter of the 1961 Grand Critérium winner, Abdos. She also produced Darara who won the Prix Vermeille and became a very successful broodmare.
Racing career
Trained by Alain de Royer-Dupré, Darshaan was ridden by Yves Saint-Martin in all his races. As a two-year-old in 1983, he won the Group 1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud, setting a race record time of 2:07.40 for 2,000 metres that still stood going into 2010. At age three, Darshaan won the Prix Hocquart, Prix Greffulhe, and the French Classic, the Prix du Jockey Club. In the International Classification for 1984, he was the highest rated French-trained three-year-old, and the third highest-rated three-year-old in Europe behind El Gran Senor and Chief Singer.
Podcasts:
Sun Probe
by: DarshanThe vast side of the sun. Over 100 million miles from
earth. Hidden from the eyes of radio telescopes by the
sun itself. Now this morning (...) a strange thing
happened. The gyro-mechanism (...) where influenced by
another magnetic field. The captual city camera was
panned over the sun, towards the force (...) attracted.
That force gentlemen, was the gravitational pole of
another planet. A new planet in our solar system.
Preliminary orbit 34.000 miles from planet surfaces
planet right? Right.
Mass gravitational pole, similar to earth. There's an
atmosphere. (...) Suitible landing site? Established.