Alysheba enters Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame

Alysheba was part of a banner class that entered the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Friday night at Retama Park. He was enshrined alongside Streakin Six, John Adger, Keith and Marilyn Asmussen, Johnny Cox, Ted Keefer, and Bob and Janice McNair.

Alysheba’s entrance into the Texas Hall has great meaning to the family of the late Clarence and Dorothy Scharbauer, according to Ken Carson, general manager of Valor Farm in Pilot Point, Texas. Dorothy raced Alysheba with her daughter, Pam.

“For Clarence and Dorothy and the Scharbauer family, they love Texas as much as they love horse racing,” Carson said. “It’s a huge thing for Douglas, Chris, Clarence III, and Pam. It’s a big deal.”

Carson said Doug Scharbauer represented his mother and sister at the ceremony. Doug Scharbauer now owns the Valor Farm operation, founded by his parents, and is active in the breeding and racing industries. (On Wednesday night at Retama, two horses he bred – stakes winner It’s My Money and Tell Me U Love Me – will face off in the $65,000 Darby’s Daughter division of the Texas Stallion Stakes.) The Scharbauer family also has strong ties to Midland, Texas.

The late Kentucky Derby winner Alysheba was the 1987 champion 3-year-old, the 1988 Horse of the Year, and in 1993 he entered racing’s national Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Back in July, he entered the Louisiana Downs Hall of Fame. Alysheba was voted in by fans. He won the track’s Super Derby.

Cox, a former jockey who won the 1971 All American Futurity aboard Mr Kid Charge, entered the Ruidoso Downs Hall of Fame earlier this year. He led the post parade for the track’s $3 million All American Futurity on Labor Day.