Updated On: 24 November, 2023 07:47 AM IST | Mumbai | Prakash Gosavi
Hussain started training horses at Mumbai and Pune in 1985, and won close to 650 races, including 13 Classics

Trainer Altaf Hussain. Pic/Shadab Khan
News of trainer Altaf Hussain‘s death, the defeat of three piping-hot on-money favourites in the first three races of the card, and a controversial decision by the race club stewards to declare the Royal Calcutta Turf Club Trophy null and void marred the opening day of the Mumbai racing season which got underway at Mahalaxmi on Thursday.
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