Episode Two: Thieves in the Night

A cold and stormy night in Ireland is made even more terrifying by the presence of armed and masked men.

'We’ve come to take Shergar, we want £2m'

Kidnappings were not unusual in Ireland at this time, except most of the time it was humans that were taken and some of them never came back.

Who would want a horse? And a stallion who no longer raced at that.