Ahmed bin Salman Al Saud

Prince Ahmed was born in Riyadh on 17 November 1958. He was the third son of Salman bin Abdulaziz and Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairi.{{cite web|title=Princess Sultana bint Turki Al Sudairy dies|url=http://www.lifeinriyadh.com/princess-sultana-bint-turki-al-sudairy-dies|work=Arab News|access-date=4 May 2012|date=1 August 2011|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 October 2012 ==Education==

Prince Ahmed first studied at Colorado School of Mines. He then graduated from Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri.{{cite news|author=Joe Drape|title=Horse racing; A Prince's Passion finally Pays Off|access-date=23 May 2012 ==Career==

Ahmed bin Salman joined the Saudi armed forces before dealing in business.{{cite book|author=Sabri Sharaf|title=The House of Saud in Commerce: A Study of Royal Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia|location=New Delhi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51Bb8Ix7xw8C&pg=PA142 The SRMG was reported to be the largest media company in the Arab world. The business was worth $90 million when Prince Ahmed took over the company and its assets had grown to nearly $533 million at the point he died. After his death, his full brother Prince Faisal became the chairman of SRMG. ==Involvement in horse racing==

Ahmed bin Salman began horseracing activity with his college friend Richard Mulhall as his horse trainer and eventually his manager of racing operations. He also achieved another dream by winning the Kentucky Derby with War Emblem in May 2002, making him the first Arab horse owner to win this race. War Emblem was sold to Prince Ahmed just three weeks before the race after the horse won the Illinois Derby. The price of the horse was $900,000.{{cite news|author=David Lawrence|title=Faisal to step into the breach|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Faisal+to+step+into+the+breach.-a089955466|access-date=19 April 2013 Ahmed bin Salman also owned Spain, horse racing's all-time female money-winner. He is one of only four men to have raced both a Kentucky Derby winner and an Epsom Derby winner. The others are John W. Galbreath, Michael Tabor, and Paul Mellon. War Emblem's win in the Preakness With his college friend Richard Mulhall as trainer, he got into the racing business initially as Universal Stable.{{Cite web|title=Prince Ahmed bin Salman dead at age 43 - Horse Racing|access-date=22 February 2007 ==Other positions==

Ahmed bin Salman was appointed secretary-general of the Prince Fahd bin Salman Charitable Association for Kidney Patients, and was a member of the charity’s board of directors following the death of his elder brother Fahd bin Salman in 2001. ==Personal life==

Prince Ahmed was survived by his wife, Lamia bint Mishaal, daughter of Mishaal bin Saud Al Saud. They married in 1986 and had four daughters and a son.{{cite news|author=Etab Noor|title=Prince Ahmad: A force behind Arab media|newspaper=Arab News ==Death and double funeral==

Ahmed bin Salman died of heart failure at age 43 in Riyadh on 22 July 2002. He was buried in Al Oud cemetery on 23 July 2002 after funeral prayers at the Imam Turki bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh.{{cite news|author=Abdullah Al Oraifij|title=Sultana, wife of Riyadh Emir, passes away|access-date=9 August 2012 ==Legacy==

Faisal bin Salman announced in 2004 that Prince Ahmad bin Salman Institute for Applied Media Training would be established to train journalists.{{cite news|title=Prince Ahmad Institute for Media Training Set Up|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/257427|access-date=21 May 2012 ==Alleged Knowledge of 9/11 attacks unproven==

In Why America Slept (2003), Gerald Posner claimed Ahmed bin Salman, along with Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah, and Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, all had ties to al-Qaeda, and had advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks. All three died within days of each other, soon after the CIA inquired about their possible connection to the attacks. The story was strongly denied by his family, who claimed he admired the United States, spent a great deal of time at his home there in Bradbury, California, and had invested heavily in the American horse racing industry. His friends in American horse racing stated their knowledge of him and his attitudes made it impossible to believe the allegations.{{cite news ==Ancestry==

• Gerald Posner. (2003).Why America Slept. Random House. • Craig Unger. (2004). House of Bush, House of Saud. Scribner