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On Horse Racing: A Troubled Jockey’s Full Legacy Is on Display

Natalie Jowett Antley does not know what she will say about her late husband, Chris Antley, when she speaks at the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame on Friday. She has been worried more about how her daughter will hold up when the father who died before she was born will be recognized as one of the greatest jockeys of all time.

She is reminded of him every day when she looks in Violet Grace Antley’s piercing blue eyes and sees her late husband looking back. Antley passed his love of horses on to his daughter — Natalie and Violet have made the trip to the training center in Elloree, S.