‘Hasan Ali is no stud farm owner’

Distancing themselves from beleaguered businessman Hasan Ali Khan alias Syed Mohammed Hasan Ali Khan, the National Horse Breeding Society of India (NHBSI) and Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) told DNA that Khan is not a stud farm owner.

“The media has been wrongly reporting that Khan is a stud farm owner,” chairman, RWITC, Vivek Jain, told DNA on Saturday.

In a letter addressed to DNA on Friday, the president of the NHBSI, Dr FF Wadia, said, “Khan has been repeatedly and erroneously described in the media as a ‘stud farm owner’.

As the representative body of all stud farms in India, may we clarify that Khan does not own any stud farm in India wholly or in part.”
Seconding the stand, registrar of the Stud Book Authority of India, Satish Iyer, also said, that Khan does not own any stud farm.
Khan (58), who hails from Hyderabad, is the son of an excise inspector. He has five siblings (one brother and four sisters).

Brought up in Hyderabad, Khan lived with his former wife Mehbooba Khan and two sons in the posh Banjara Hills locality before he divorced his wife in 1999 and shifted to Pune in 2000.
Khan ran a successful car rental agency in Shahjahan Apartments, Khairatabad, before moving to Pune.

He married his present wife Rheema, a sister of horse trainer, Faisal Abbas, in 2000. The couple has a six-year-old son.

(With inputs from Sandip Dighe)