Steve Asmussen and Rachel Alexandra, the great mare he trained to Horse of the Year honours, as well as Horse of the Year Zenyatta and jockey Ramon Dominguez will be inducted this year into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame
Both Rachel Alexandra’s foals have won first time out and Rachel joined an elite band of Gr1 winning champion racemares when her daughter, Rachel’s Valentina, won the Gr1 Spinaway Stakes last Saturday
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million
