Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, has purchased the 2009 Argentine Derby winner Storm Chispazo. Mr. Kadyrov’s Dubai-based trainer, South African Herman Brown, went to Argentina to inspect the horse, Brown’s assistant, Nicolas Iguacel, said. Nicolas is currently in Dubai with the...

It was reported recently that the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) will investigate Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s background before renewing his owner’s license for 2010 in Britain. The international clamor against him in racing circles reached new highs in Australia the last month...

Readers of this blog are fully versed on the details of the assassination of Sulim Yamadaev in Dubai on March 28, the date of the World Cup at Nad Al Sheba. Mr. Yamadaev was a former associate of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov who had fled Chechnya after the assassination of his brother Ruslan in Moscow...

Mourilyan’s in the Melbourne Cup tomorrow, but his owner, Ramzan Kayrov, is fighting rebels in Chechnya. See a recent profile of the president of Chechnya from AlJazeera.

ANZ Bloodstock News reported today that Victorian government officials will not stop Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s Mourilyan and Bankable from competing at the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Click here to read the story.

Rolf Johnson has followed up an earlier piece in the Daily Express about Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s duo of Bankable and Mourilyan to race in Australia. Rold wrote today: “LEADER of Australia’s Greens party Senator Bob Brown has demanded Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stops Chechnyan president...

Daily Express columnist Rolf Johnson reports that Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s Bankable may have a race in Australia next month. Meanwhile, it’s been reported previously that Mr. Kadyrov’s Mourilyan may contest the Pellegrini in Argentina in December. Bronze Cannon, who was purchased...

Halicarnassus, a 5-year-old son of Cape Cross, won the Group 2 Bosphorus Cup at Veliefendi in Istanbul today to give European raiders a clean sweep of the four international races on the two-day Istanbul International Racing Festival card. A Group 2 winner at 2, Halicarnassus has been heavily campaigned...

Sheikh Mohammed is the Ruler of Dubai; Ramzan A. Kadyrov is the President of Chechnya. Both heads of state are Muslims and horse racing aficionados. Both hobnob with other international dignitaries and have distinct sartorial styles: the sheikh favors tails and top hats and the company of Elizabeth II...

Chechen president Ramzan A. Kadyrov’s Mourilyan won the Listed Windflower March Stakes at Goodwood today to give the controversial Kremlin-installed head of state his first win in Britain, I believe. If not, it was his first stakes win. Last out, Mourilyan, an ex-Aga Khan horse, ran a good second...