James Cassels This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. NWANews.com - Northwest Arkansas News on the web

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   Published on: 4/15/2002   Last Visited: 4/15/2002

   The horse will have to be flying the purple colors of co-owners James Cassels and Robert Zollars.
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   Private Emblem's fourth victory increased his career earnings to $459,300 for Cassels and Zollars, who formed their partnership in the late 1990s.
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   Cassels is the retired owner of Texas International Aviation and lives in Irving, Texas.

2. 2. Maryland Jockey Club

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   Published on: 10/29/2001   Last Visited: 11/18/2002

   James Cassels has been around racing since the early 1950s, first while his father raced quarter horses and later as he did the same before turning to Thoroughbreds.
   
   Cassels was born Sept. 23, 1937 in Dallas and grew up there. About as far as he's ever ventured from Dallas was when he attended college at North Texas State University, which is in Denton, Texas, not quite 40 miles north of Big D. He now lives in Irving, which is a bit west of Dallas, with his wife, Fran. They have two grown sons.
   
   He's retired, having stepped down in 1998 as owner of Texas International Aviation, a company he founded in 1969 as a supplier for several aircraft production companies.
   
   Cassels bought his first quarter horse in 1973 and raced at various quarter horse venues for several years. One of his quarter horses, Queens Pie, won the 1985 Black Gold Futurity and also qualified for the All-American Futurity.
   
   He began owning some Thoroughbreds as well beginning in 1981. Among his early successes in Thoroughbred racing was a horse he claimed for $10,000 that went on to win seven straight races, including the 1990 Week of Fame Life Gold Cup Handicap and the Fair Grounds' Budweiser Breeders' Cup at New Orleans' Fair Grounds track. That horse was named Tower Above 'Em, and he did. He took a break from racing for a short time while Lone Star Park was being built in Irving neighbor Grand Prairie. Upon completion of the track, he began buying young horses again.
   
   He numbers Big Numbers, Fifty Stars, Private Emblem and Easyfromthegitgo, all in partnership with Bob Zollars, among his best runners. Big Numbers was nominated to the Visa Triple Crown in 2000, but didn't get to the Kentucky Derby. Cassels and Zollars met on a golf course in Grand Prairie and were playing partners for some time before they decided to partner up in racing too.
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   Zollars met his racing partner in 1973, but didn't get involved until four years ago, when Cassels and trainer Steve Asmussen bought three yearlings for the partnership at the Keeneland September yearling sale.
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   In this year's Run for the Roses, Asmussen sent out Private Emblem for owners James Cassels and Bob Zollars, but the Arkansas Derby winner could finish no better than 14th in the field of 18.
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   Asmussen's major clients include Robert and Leland Ackerley of Houston, and James Cassels and Bob Zollars.

3. 3. NWANews.com - Northwest Arkansas News on the web

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   Published on: 7/28/2001   Last Visited: 4/14/2002

   The horse will have to be flying the purple colors of co-owners James Cassels and Robert Zollars.
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   Private Emblem's fourth victory increased his career earnings to $459,300 for Cassels and Zollars, who formed their partnership in the late 1990s.
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   Cassels is the retired owner of Texas International Aviation and lives in Irving, Texas.