Its a Living

[Horny Harry]

Tough way to make a living
By BRAD FREE
DEL MAR, Calif. - To any horseplayer who ever fantasized about making a living betting on horses, clocker-gambler Gary Young says "don't even try."
But why not? It's a dream job: time morning workouts at Santa Anita or Del Mar, wager in the afternoon, hit the pick six every few days. Young smiled. "[Bettors] come up to me and say, 'I want to do what you do.' I say, don't try . . . a 55-hour work week without a paycheck at the end of the week is not something made for everybody."
The vocation - clocking and gambling on horses - also is widely misunderstood. "You get some weird looks from people off the racetrack," Young said. "You meet someone and they ask 'What do you do?' Well, I gamble on horses. They look at you like you're the creature from the Black Lagoon."
Except that the profession is nonfiction, and tailor-made for Young. A 40-year-old clocker-gambler whose twin brother, Steve, is a trainer in New York, Gary Young has carved a reputable niche in California. Young's opinion, based primarily on his interpretation of morning workouts, is widely sought.
Leading trainers routinely cross-check work times with Young. Jockey and bloodstock agents have his cell number on speed dial, and public handicappers regularly quiz him regarding first-time starters. The reason is simple. "I am good at what I do," Young says. "Damn good."
When you wager more than $300,000 a year, as Young did regularly in the 1990's - your competence level shows up in the bottom line. Says Young: "I'm up." He also has come a long way from his first racetrack job, walking hots at Calder at age 17. "When I first started, if I left the races with $100 in my pocket, all was right in the world." Over the years, the ante was raised.
Young worked six years as stable agent for trainer Arnold Winick, teamed in the 1980's with professional gambler Rene Romero for a lucrative 15-year assault on the California pick six, and has ventured into the bloodstock business. It was on Young's advice Albert Broccoli purchased 1993 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Brocco; stakes winner Crafty C.T. was purchased by Carl Grether on Young's recommendation, after watching the colt at a 2-year-old sale.
Those would be Young's credentials on a resume. He hasn't needed one; self-employment was the only way. "I don't think I was ever meant to have a boss," he said.
Young can be found most mornings in the box seats at Santa Anita, a few yards before the finish line. Stopwatch, tape recorder, and notebook are the tools of his profession. Able to identify hundreds of horses by sight, Young watches them gallop and breeze, interpreting their condition by how they move. The morning observations apply directly to afternoon performance. At least, that is the simple explanation.
"The biggest misconception people have about this part of the game is that - because we clock horses - we immediately walk in and know who to bet on," Young said. "If every horse ran like they worked, I'd be in Hawaii playing golf every day for the rest of my life."
Instead, Young plays golf locally, usually only on dark days. On a typical afternoon of racing, Young is putting together pick six tickets, wagering, applying the subjective workout information to the black-and-white interpretation of Daily Racing Form past performances. He has been doing it for more than 20 years.
Partly because of his backstretch experience, and primarily because few others were clocking horses for the sole purpose of wagering, Young discovered "there was a tremendous edge. It's not only timing them in workouts, but recognizing how they're galloping, recognizing which ones are going good, which ones are going bad."
Young spent summers in California starting in 1981, when Winick sent East Coast-based Spence Bay out West. Young, a "stable agent," made one of his first workout-related scores in 1983 with a California first-time starter trained by Tommy Doyle.
"He just looked like a really nice horse who covered a huge amount of ground," Young recalled. "He drew the one-hole, which people tend to shy away from with a first-time starter, and he was sitting up there at 35-1." Young bet straight, Mighty Adversary rallied. Young does not offer specific dollar amounts of his wagers, but the impression was the win-wager score was at least five figures.
The pick six offered greater opportunities. Playing tickets in the $1,500 range - higher on carryover days - Young and Romero banged profits year after year, before going their separate ways. "I have made some pretty big scores straight betting, but it's mostly been pick sixes," Young said. "There's no way you can continue to eat chalk and wind up winning. If you try win-place betting on 5-2 or less, you have no chance."
Although Young said his parimutuel advantage has declined (he cited proliferation in California of work-related information and an accompanying decline in quality), the hits keep coming. Only two years ago Young put together a pick six ticket at Santa Anita (Feb. 5, 2000) that returned $601,025. It was a huge payoff considering 3-5 Strub Stakes favorite General Challenge effectively made it a pick five.
Since much of Young's handicapping addresses the gray area between preparation and performance, it follows that his strong suit is analyzing horses whose form is unclear. Maiden races, comebackers, and recent imports provide his biggest advantage. "The 4-and-up, $25,000 claimers . . . rarely are you going to cash a bet based on [clocking information]."
Young has declined offers to publish his observations, but noted that today's bettors have abundant access to similar California information. He cited National Turf (nationalturf.com) and Handicappers' Report (hreport.com) as leading sources.
"The weekend player has a lot more chance now of coming out ahead than he used to. When we first came to California, there weren't even any trouble notes in the [past performances]," Young said. "Now, not only can the weekend player read that, he can go to [video replay machines] and see it."
He can win also, but only with proper wagering. Young's strategy requires self-discipline. "I don't bet every day," Young said. "I only bet when I like the card, or when there's a carryover. Like a Thursday card. I can't pick one, how am I going to pick six? When I like a card, I have at least two singles, one of which cannot be a favorite. Preferably, both. A lot of the pick sixes I hit, both were not favorites."
According to Young, handicapping is "always is a process of elimination, eliminating horses you think can't win." He explained his basic approach marking up Daily Racing Form. "I either kick a horse out totally with a slash through him, or if I think a horse is a secondary [contender] I put a 2 through him. If I think he's got a chance but I'm not too sure about him I put a question mark through him. If I like a horse, I put a circle around him.
"I don't pay a lot of attention to [speed figures]. I go by what my gut feeling is, what my eyes tell me when I watch them in the afternoon, what my eyes tell me when I watch them work in the morning. I try to bet on the best horse, not the fastest horse."
Ultimately, Young uses a sports analogy in buying horses, and gambling on them. "You've got to hit the ball out of the ballpark," he said. "When you're buying horses, you're going to have some Hindenburgs, you're going to have some lemons. It's just like gambling, when you hit one" - Brocco and Crafty C.T. for example - "you better hit one good."

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Moschera quits game after 25 years

Benoit & Associates


"It used to be when I claimed 10 horses, maybe you'd get one sore one, two sore ones. Now, maybe out of 50 horses, 45 were no good. They wouldn't train, they wouldn't run. They kept deteriorating." - Trainer Gasper Moschera

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By DAVID GRENING

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - For the majority of the 1990's, one couldn't discuss New York racing without bringing up the name Gasper Moschera. The former carpet store owner was the New York Racing Association circuit's leading trainer from 1993 through 1998.

But as the new century dawned, Moschera, one of the sharpest claiming trainers in the game, began to fade from the top of the leader board. Now, he has vanished entirely from the Belmont Park backstretch, giving up the game last week after a training career of 25 years. Moschera, 60, said he plans to sell his Floral Park home and move to south Florida. The two horses he had in training have been transferred to Mitch Friedman.

Moschera's business has been in steady decline the last several years. From 1992 to 1998, Moschera averaged 100 wins a year. From 1999 to 2002, he averaged 23 wins a year. In 2002, he won just eight races from 59 starters. His last win came on Aug. 22 at Saratoga with Bar Fly. Since then, he started only six horses.

Moschera traces the beginning of his decline to 1995, when New York became the last racing jurisdiction to permit the use of the anti-bleeding medication Lasix. He said he believes that Lasix, a diuretic, helps mask illegal medications, a development he contends other horsemen have taken advantage of.

"The Lasix was a problem for me," said Moschera. "I didn't want it, but they didn't take a vote on it. There's a lot of [trainers] that win, that didn't win before. I used to run a horse that was 3-5 or 4-5 or 1-2 and you had to beat that horse. Today, it's not like that anymore.'

Moschera, who won 10 Aqueduct training titles and two at Belmont, said he has seen a big difference in the health of the horses he and his primary owner, Barbara Davis, have claimed over the years. "Anything that I claimed in the last couple of years outside of maybe one or two horses, they were broken bones,' Moschera said. "I had to sell them. Most of them, I didn't have a chance to run. It used to be when I claimed 10 horses, maybe you'd get one sore one, two sore ones. Now, maybe out of 50 horses, 45 were no good. Barbara kept putting up money, and they wouldn't train, they wouldn't run. They kept deteriorating.

"It's like I don't know what I'm doing anymore. I'm shelling out all my cash; I have no cash left. I was working just to make payroll and every other bill. I said, that's it. My wife said, 'You're the only one that goes to work and doesn't make money.' '

When Moschera was winning all those races in the 1990's, rumors swirled that he was using illegal substances on his horses, although he never had a drug positive, according to the New York State Racing and Wagering Board.

Moschera won 1,547 races from 8,908 starts, according to Daily Racing Form statistics. He said there was ample opportunity for authorities to catch him if he had been cheating.

"Surely they would have caught me if I was using something,' he said. "I never had a positive; that has to say something. I didn't learn this game with drugs and I never got involved with drugs.'

Moschera got into the game in the 1970's as an assistant for Floreano Fernandez before going out on his own in 1977. Moschera trained almost exclusively for Long Island contractor Albert Davis and his daughter Barbara. In 1985, Moschera claimed Videogenic for $100,000, and the horse went on to win $1.5 million and 11 stakes, including the Grade 1 Ladies and Santa Ana handicaps.

Other stakes winners trained by Moschera include Moro, Mr. Sinatra, Iron Gavel, More to Tell, Royal Haven, Divulge, May I Inquire, and Fabersham.

Moschera, a carpenter by trade, said he would not rule out returning.

"Maybe I'll be back,' he said. "The way I feel now is I don't want to be involved with horses. Who knows in a year or two? Maybe, I'll just own horses and give them to somebody to train. The game is a good game. New York was just hay, oats, and water, and it's not like that anymore. That's the problem.'

Moschera's departure from the game comes less than two years after Peter Ferriola, another highly successful claiming trainer, quit. Ferriola, who is two months younger than Moschera, was the NYRA's leading trainer in 1987, 1991, and 1992 and won nine Aqueduct and two Belmont training titles from 1985-92. Ferriola now resides in central Florida.

Gary Contessa, the leading trainer of Aqueduct's winter meet, said losing a trainer of Moschera's stature should serve as a wake-up call for all horsemen.

"The thing that comes to mind when I hear that Gasper Moschera is out of the game is how easily it could be me,' Contessa said. "It makes everybody think real hard how tough this business really is. I know it could happen to me so it makes me wake up in the morning and try that much harder.'

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Staggering return by Krone

American jockey Julie Krone has already scaled boundaries as big as Mount Everest in her quest to become a successful jockey.
She managed all of them and then at the age of 36 she decided it was time to call it a day. Well she did last three years out of the saddle, but the call was too great.

On the weekend she returned to the saddle on the racetracks of Southern California and promptly scored a win.

Champion USA jockey Kent Desormeaux did not mince words when he saw her. The New York Times reported he turned to Krone and said: "Do you know how good you are?" he asked without waiting for an answer."That old horse hadn't won forever and there you were sitting quiet, talking that old boy home. It was really something to watch."

That 'old horse' was Spinelessjellyfish, a seven year-old who last won back in 2000. Krone though nursed him home to win the USD$100,000 Sensational Star Handicap.

Krone told the New York Times' Joe Drape "It's hard to describe something that gives me so much joy and happiness, and then to have success at it just makes me feel so blessed."

By: Jo Adams - Thursday, 9 January 2003


FLASHBACK

Posted: Wednesday April 28, 1999 11:41 AM


Grand Prairie, Texas (CNN/SI) -- A banner that draped over the upper deck railing at the Lone Star Track said it all.

"Thanks Julie. You are the best!"

On this particular day, Julie Krone was the best and she was going out a winner.

"They're coming down to the line," blared the track announcer as the horses were about to cross the finish line. "When will it stop? Julie Krone perfect today. She's three-for-three."

But on this third Sunday in April, everything did stop for Krone. This was to be her final ride in her final race, ending a long and illustrious career.

"And the sign up there today made me smile," she said referring to the banner. "And the fans? I can't repeat it enough how wonderfully Lone Star treated me today and it was almost like even God cooperated giving me three winners and two seconds and beautiful weather and all the fans."

The important thing to note is that it was Krone's decision to put an end to a riding career filled with joy, pain and accomplishment. She was the most successful female jockey in history winning over 3,500 races and 11 riding titles while battling head-to-head, seven days a week against some of the best jockeys in the world.

Julie Krone proved she belonged in their company.

"It's not only all my winners that were acknowledged" she says, "but my tenacity and the way that I think I mean to women in sports."

During her 18-year career, Krone never played the gender card simply because soon after dropping out of high school to become a jockey, she began shattering all the myths that girls didn't have the aggressive temperament, mental toughness and physical strength to win at the highest level of racing.

Krone punctuated the point beyond dispute at the 1993 Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair when she became the only woman to win a Triple Crown race.

In the process, she encouraged millions of girls that there are no boundaries.

"The young girls come up to me and say, 'Oh, I'm the high scorer on my soccer team ' or 'I play hardball' or 'I'm the pitcher for this thing' and the inspiration it gives being a winner." She adds there's more to just crossing the finish line because, "It's not winning or losing. I mean, I hate to be cliche but you always have to put in an effort."

Especially when adversity strikes which Krone can speak of with absolute believability because surrounding her triumphs were tragedies that would have finished a weaker person long ago. In 1989 a major spill at the Meadowlands left her with a shattered left arm.

Then just two months after her Belmont victory, she was involved in a horrible accident at Saratoga. Her doctor said the only worse ankle injury he'd ever seen had been on an airplane crash victim. Krone also suffered a cardiac contusion. She had literally been kicked in the heart, but it didn't crush her spirit -- nine months later she was back in the saddle.

"It's a passion for riding race horses and being in the winner circle," Krone said. "I can't emphasize enough that now I know how dangerous it is. I'm willing to make that trade-off."

Just five months later at Gulfstream Park in 1995, Krone went down again. She injured both of her hands, the tools she had used so exquisitely to coax so many horses to the finish line first. This time the mental wounds were the deepest and she needed the help of a psychiatrist to repair the damage.

While no other rider ever intimidated her, Krone admitted she had begun to lose some of her tenacity -- some of her nerve. When she returned to the race track again, she was more tentative than she'd ever been. Riding race horses had always been a labor of love. But now with her abilities compromised and her 35-year-old body aching, it had become a job.

It was time to leave.

"And now that it's all over, I feel a bit of a tug on my heartstring, and it's very special," she says. Even when the other jockeys pushed her face into a congratulatory cake? "Even right down to being put in the cake. It was a special moment for me."

What about all the falls, bumps, breaks and bruises? No contest.

"It was worth all the time I spent in hospitals and by myself and things that were those muddy days when you finish dead last 20 times and you go, 'Why am I doing this?'"

The answer was simple enough. Riding horses all these years had value and virtue. And even though Krone can finally sleep in as late as she wants, her zest for living the next chapter in her life would never allow it.

Krone's been eligible for induction into racing's hall of fame since 1996, but her name has never even appeared on the ballot. Maybe her 16th place ranking in all-time earnings doesn't have enough dazzle to impress the powers-that-be. But her many admirers say her place in history has little to do with statistics and everything to do with impact.

What Julie Krone did is change forever the way women are viewed in horse racing.

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[Handy Harry]

After six weeks of racing, quiet fills Saratoga air

By TIM WILKIN, Staff writer

First published: Wednesday, September 4, 2002

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Madaglia D'Oro

SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The stall that served as Travers winner Medaglia d'Oro's summer home was empty Tuesday morning.

In fact, all the stalls at Barn 72 on the Oklahoma Training Track were vacant.

Trainer Bobby Frankel, the boss of Barn 72, was nowhere to be seen.

A week ago, Frankel would have been standing along the rail, watching his horses train, holding court with rival trainers and answering questions from the media.

The Oklahoma was quiet Tuesday morning. Really quiet. The backstretch across the street at Saratoga Race Course was, too.

Leaves with red and yellow colors had fallen to the ground, signaling that fall is just a furlong away.

The day after the 134th race meeting ended brought an eerie still to an area that had been buzzing with activity for the last six weeks.

When the final race was finished early Labor Day evening, it announced the end of summer in the Spa City.

It also started a mass exodus. Most of the 1,800 horses on the grounds had already left or were in the process of doing so Tuesday. By the end of the week, it is expected there will be between 500 and 550 horses on the grounds.

That is because the Oklahoma will remain open for training through the end of October.

The rest are gone.

Trainer John Ward was standing outside his Oklahoma barn early Tuesday morning, getting ready to move his operation to his base in Lexington, Ky.

In a few hours, an 18-wheel horse van would be parked outside the barn and 18 of Ward's horses -- including Hopeful winner Sky Mesa -- would become passengers. After being vanned to Albany International Airport, they would be flown to Kentucky.

"They should all be in their Kentucky stalls by 3 this afternoon," Ward said. "It's amazing that, in the span of 48 hours, just about all the horses on the grounds will be gone and be set up someplace else and ready to go again."

Ward's barn was one of the few that had activity on the day after. Wherever one looked, there were empty stalls and plenty of hay. Small mountains of hay were next to all the vacated stalls. Workers at each barn emptied every stall of the hay that had been a cushion for the horses.

Ward, like all horsemen, was wondering what happened to the Spa summer. It seemed like only yesterday the meet was opening. Now, it's gone.

"I went into Stewart's this morning to get the newspapers," Ward said. "I walked in and looked at the local papers and I said, 'Well, I guess it's about time to get back to the real world.' So, I bought a USA Today and a New York Times. You come up here and you get isolated from the real world. You go through Saratoga today and it's quiet and the race meet is over and, what are we doing? We're packing up and heading off to the next place of mass confusion."

While most operations were gone, there is a small pocket that will continue on. Trainers Patrick Biancone and Nick Zito are among those who will stay up here through the fall. Jonathan Sheppard, the trainer of Sword Dancer winner With Anticipation, will keep some of his horses here as well.

Biancone sat in a golf court just inside the gates of the Oklahoma and watched some of his horses gallop on the dirt track.

"I like it here now," Biancone said with a satisfied look. "It is quiet and peaceful. I don't know where the time went. When you are young, it seems like the day can be very long. When you become older, it seems like it goes by faster."

Zito was sitting at a table outside his barn Tuesday morning, trying to wipe the sleep out of his eyes. He admitted he was tired after the long meet, one that saw him finish third in the training standings with 10 wins.

As tired as he was, his face brightened when asked about not having to ship out of town.

"I would rather be here than anyplace else," Zito said. "In my opinion, the facility here is the best training facility in the country. I love it here."


Wrap Up

Medaglia d'Oro won the Travers Stakes (Gr. 1) and the Jim Dandy (Gr. 2) to lead the way during an exciting 134th meeting at Saratoga Race Course.

Orientate and Awesome Humor also won two stakes races at the 2002 Saratoga meeting.

Medaglia d'Oro earned $900,000 at the 2002 Saratoga meeting for owner Edmund Gann. Jerry Bailey rode the 3-year-old to both victories for trainer Bobby Frankel.

Orientate, owned by Bob and Beverly Lewis, moved to the front of the class in the Sprint Division at Saratoga. He toyed with the field as he won the A.G. Vanderbilt (Gr. 2). Then he survived a torrid speed duel to win the Forego Handicap (Gr. 1).

Awesome Humor, a juvenile filly, won the Adirondack (Gr. 2) and the Spinaway (Gr. 1) for WinStar Farm. She left the Spa with an undefeated 4-for-4 record and a bright future.

Pat Day won the Sword Dancer Invitational on Aug. 10 aboard With Anticipation for the second straight year. His 2002 victory, however, was even more meaningful: the purse money moved him past Chris McCarron to the top of the career earnings list with more than $264 million.

Farda Amiga, who won the Kentucky Oaks on May 3, returned to the track with style to win the Alabama (Gr. 1) and spark a Brazilian-style celebration by owner Paulo Lobo.

Shine Again won the Ballerina Handicap (Gr. 1) for the second year in a row.

Left Bank equaled the 1 1/8-mile track and stakes record when he won the Whitney Handicap (Gr. 1). Left Bank, however, was later retired after a life-threatening battle with colic.

And, in an exciting running of the Test, You nosed out Carson Hollow after a stretchlong battle.

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By MARY RAMPELLINI

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - James Lopez, last year's leading rider at Oaklawn Park, will begin the meet on Friday with a larger client base than he had last year. Lopez realizes that he will need the added business to successfully defend his title against a deep rider colony that includes many newcomers, among them former Oaklawn leading rider Jon Court and Ronald Ardoin, a winner of more than 5,000 races.

"I don't think it's going to be a dominating meet, where one rider wins all the races," said Lopez, 24. "Its going to be pretty spread out, and it's going to be a good race. It's going to be exciting to watch."

Lopez won his first Oaklawn title last year with 59 wins. Among the horses that helped him along the way were eventual Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up Medaglia d'Oro, who won his maiden at Oaklawn before being sold, and stakes winners Crafty Shaw and Spanish Glitter.

This meet, Lopez is hoping for more of the same. "I have some really nice horses to campaign through this meet with," he said. "I think I'm a lot stronger this year than I was last year, business-wise. A lot more of my clientele is here."

That's partly due to this meet's purse structure. Lopez spends most of the year in Kentucky, and a purse increase at Oaklawn has brought more of his regular stables to Hot Springs. It has also brought more competition.

Court, 42, is back at Oaklawn for the first time in two years after spending last winter at Gulfstream Park. He was the leading jockey here in 2001.

Another "new" veteran this year is Ardoin, 45, who last rode at Oaklawn on a regular basis in 1991. He rode the first day of the meet that year, retired, and has since made a comeback and reached the 5,000-win plateau. One of his biggest victories came at Oaklawn in 1996, when he won the Arkansas Derby with Zarb's Magic.

Other new riders here are Jamie Theriot, Glenn Corbett, Ken Shino, C.H. Marquez, Jr., Greta Kuntzweiler, Abel Castellano, Glen Murphy, and Brian Long.

Theriot, 23, was among the top 10 riders at Fair Grounds before moving his tack here at the request of two-time defending training champion Cole Norman.

Theriot, a past riding champ at Evangeline Downs, started to team with Norman on a regular basis last season at Louisiana Downs. He will ride a large number of horses this meet for Norman, who also plans to use Anthony Lovato, the second-leading rider here last year, and Lopez.

"I got my first big break with Cole back in 1998," said Lopez, who won the title that year at Louisiana Downs.

Among those riders returning from last meet are Terry Thompson - who was leading the Oaklawn standings in March when he was sidelined with a fractured thumb - Tim Doocy; Don Pettinger, Luis Quinonez, and Rodney Trader.

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by The Associated Press

Date Posted: 3/12/03 7:22:46 PM
Last Updated: 3/12/03 7:22:46 PM

Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone plans to return to riding despite breaking her back in a spill at Santa Anita Mar. 8.
"She has a couple small fractures in her lower back and a couple of compressed vertebrae in the middle of her back,'' said her agent, Brian Beach. ``She's been fitted with a back brace. It's nothing that requires surgery and the doctors expect a complete recovery.

"She definitely plans on coming back to ride. She hasn't seen a back specialist yet, that's the only thing standing in the way of having some sort of time frame. It's going to be at least a couple of months.''

Krone was discharged Monday from Arcadia Methodist Hospital and hopes to see a back specialist in the near future. Krone was injured when she was unseated by her mount, Sublet, at the start of the fifth race on Mar. 8.

"Her spirits are very good,'' Beach said. ``I would say she's more angry than anything else because she was doing so well. She has a fiery spirit. We had some pretty good mounts lined up in the coming weeks; she's upset that she's going to miss them.''

The sport's winningest female jockey, Krone resumed riding in November after being retired for 3 1/2 years. Before her spill, she was fifth in the jockey standings at Santa Anita for the meet.

She has ridden 3,595 winners in her career.

Krone was inducted into the thoroughbred racing Hall of Fame in 2000, the first woman to be enshrined. Among her victories was the 1993 Belmont Stakes, when she became the first woman to win a Triple Crown race.

She had two spills in the mid-1990s that led to her retirement after 18 years as a jockey.

Two months after winning the Belmont, Krone was seriously injured at Saratoga. She shattered her right ankle, bruised her heart and punctured an elbow. The ankle injury required two steel plates and 14 screws to repair.

Just 13 days after her return in 1995, Krone broke both hands when thrown from her mount at Gulfstream Park.

Krone was the second high-profile rider to be injured in a fall at Santa Anita this month. Laffit Pincay Jr., broke two bones in his neck March 1 when his horse fell in a grass race. The injury has threatened the career of the 56-year-old rider, whose 9,531 victories are the most in Thoroughbred racing history.