Cash asmussen biography
Cash asmussen.
Asmussen & Sons: The family firm that gave us Steve, Cash and so much more
When I was younger, working in the racing industry in Europe, the name Asmussen meant only one thing: Cash.
He was a superstar there for two decades, every bit as successful in France at that time as his compatriot Steve Cauthen was in Britain.
Five times Cash was France’s champion jockey.
Cash asmussen biography
He was an Arc winner, he won four French Derbys and every French Classic at least once, and more than 70 G1s worldwide. If there had been a TRC Global Rankings back then, he would have been a regular in the higher reaches of the world top ten.
After I arrived in the States in 2014, Cash Asmussen had disappeared from the public eye.
I knew he had retired from race-riding in 2001 and had immediately departed France and returned to the States, so I wondered what he had been up to since then, and how now it was his younger brother, Steve, who was the family flag bearer.
I met up with Steve Asm