Career

Ackel retired from training after his father, George Ackel, died in 1992. He returned to run his family"s commercial real estate business in Louisiana where he then purchased a 30-acre (120,000 m2) farm in Covington, Louisiana.

Achievements

• He was a California-based trainer and part-owner of Great Communicator, winner of the 1988 Breeders" Cup Turf and Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes as well as the 1989 Hollywood Turf Handicap.