Cash Asmussen

Cash Asmussen (born March 15, 1962 in Agar, South Dakota) is an American Thoroughbred jockey, born Brian Keith Asmussen, who legally changed his name to Cash in 1977. From a Texas racing family, with his brother Steve Asmussen a leading trainer, he won the 1979 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey and then moved to France to ride for the owner Stavros Niarchos from Chantilly. He was French champion jockey every year from 1985 to 1990 except 1987, the first foreign rider to take the title, and rode Suave Dancer to win the 1991 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In 1998 he won both the Irish and French Derby on Dream Well. He retired from riding in 2001 after more than 3,000 winners.