Two decades ago another daughter of Sheikh Mohammed, Princess Shamsa escaped in the UK and was later abducted, drugged and flown back to the UAE
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Sheikha Shamsa al Maktoum, ran away in 2000, aged 19, during the family's annual UK holiday.
She allegedly went to see an immigration solicitor in London to seek advice about remaining in Britain, then travelled to Cambridge.
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While there she was taken from the street and later said it was her father who sent "four Arab men to catch me, they were carrying guns and threatening me".
She claims they drove her to her father's Newmarket home and drugged her before flying her back to Dubai, where she
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was locked up.
Sheikh Mohammed told a court Shamsa was vulnerable and just a child and he felt "overwhelming relief" when she was found.
Shamsa has not been seen in public since.
c/o Skynews
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In 1927, a young Spanish boy, aged 8, - who would become the 18th Duque de Alberquerque - sat in a cinema watching a newsreel of the Grand National.
In that moment, an impossible dream was born.
Born on the 15 December 1918, the boy - Beltran de Osorio y Diez de Rivera
- was so enchanted that he resolved one day win to the great race himself.
Aged 33, the Duke - having ridden in French steeplechases - made his Grand National debut in 1952, putting up ten pound overweight on his own eight-year-old Brown Jack lll (Pic), trained by Peter Cazalet.
The tall Spaniard fell at the sixth, sustaining cracked ribs and concussion
His second attempt came eleven years later aboard the Irish-bred Jonjo (named after its joint owners John O'Hagen and Joe Thompson).
Together the 44-year-old Duke and the 13-year-old Jonjo completed the
Died On This Day 16th February 2017
Article by Chris Pitt
David Trevor Clayton held a National Hunt jockey’s licence from 1963 to 1967 and worked for Edward Courage. He was a contemporary of Grand National-winning jockey John Buckingham and was described in Buckingham’s book
‘Tales of the Weighing Room’ as “a nice chap and a promising young jockey who rode a winner for the stable @TowcesterRaces That winner was on Woodcutters Samba, the 9/4 favourite, in the Rufford Handicap Chase on Saturday, May 16, 1964. It was one of just seven rides David had
that season, most of them being on Woodcutters Samba. That was his sole success.
He rode Woodcutters Samba on several other occasions, over hurdles & fences, and was in the frame a few times, including when finishing fourth in a Towcester novices’ hurdle on Easter Monday 1965.
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My worse day with depression (when I wanted to commit suicide) was also my best day. I couldn't take anymore. It was a beautiful sunny summers day the sun was beaming down, not one cloud in the sky everyone in their
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