You're right, it wasn't Bandar. The race horse owner was one of the princelings that was killed under mysterious circumstances after 911.
Yes, if I remember correctly they wiped out 3 or four of them in the space of 5 days under all different and really unusual circumstances. It was suggested they were funding Bin Ladin in some account I read, but someone said the one who owned the Derby winner was very westernized (too much so to suit his father) and had been called home (where he had not been for a long, long time since he was so happy here) by his father on an emergency. The "emergency" appeared to be for him to experience a fatal accident.