When Julie Krone was riding, it was always on to the next race, on to the next day, on to the next track, allowing precious little time to celebrate her accomplishments, no matter how unprecedented they were. “When you are younger,” Krone said in 2014, “you are so in the moment.” Krone is now 59 years old, a wife to BloodHorse columnist Jay Hovdey, and a caring mother to Lorelei. She has had time to put perspective on it all. “I went through all these different phases. Now I look at it that it’s really cool. I really did that,” she said.
Tag: Legends
Belmont Winner Rags to Riches in League of Her Own
Todd Pletcher has won more than 5,500 races in his extraordinary training career. One stands out above the rest. That would be the 2007 Belmont Stakes, when big-hearted Rags to Riches became only the third filly to win the famed “Test of the Champion” and the first since Tanya in 1905.
Spectacular Second Jewel for Secretariat Featured a Car Crash, a Trio of Nuns, and a Surprising Move
It’s a good thing the connections of Secretariat had their confidence built up by their star’s performance in winning the Kentucky Derby, because they needed every bit of it to fend off the demons and bad omens that swirled around the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, May 19, 1973.
Rachel Alexandra: A Superstar Filly for the Ages
Dolph Morrison bred Rachel Alexandra but was so unimpressed in the early stages of her development that he twice contemplated selling her.
