First female trainer to win Kentucky Derby describes career path: 'I was always a horse girl'
NBC News·2026-05-04 23:33

You actually did not start out in thoroughbred racing, right before we turned the mics on, you told me about how you participated in rodeos, uh, in barrel racing as well. What got you to make the turn to thoroughbred racing? The process for me was not linear. it. I I was always a horse girl and we started out with standard bread racing in my family and my parents um took a sbatical and went down to Florida and that's when I was competing in rodeos and they unceremoniously dropped me off at school in Florida ...

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