When was julie krone born

Visit Us Contact Search. Menu Contact. Visit Us Shopping Cart 0 items. The Homecoming Campaign Learn more. Within a few years, her success made her a well-known racing personality. Krone retired for the first time on April 18, , with a three-winner day at Lone Star Park, near Dallas. She embarked upon a broadcasting career in horse racing.

From — she worked as an analyst for TVG Network, then worked as a paddock analyst for Hollywood Park from — She came out of retirement at Santa Anita Park in November After a good start to the season, she fractured two bones in her lower back and spent the next four months recovering.

She returned to lead the Del Mar jockeys in purse earnings, then went on to become the first woman jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race when she rode Halfbridled to victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.

On December 12, , just weeks after her Breeders' Cup win, she broke several ribs and suffered severe muscle tears in a fall at Hollywood Park Racetrack. Though not fully recovered from her injuries, Krone attempted to come back on February 14, , at Santa Anita Park but failed to win in three races.

She did not ride again; on July 8 of that year, she made a statement in which she did not officially retire, but strongly hinted that she would never race again. Sleeping with her whip, dreaming of racing, riding before school-this was the life of a little girl whose only dream was to be a jockey.

Forging her birth certificate to gain access to the track at Churchill Downs as an exercise rider, and talking her way into mounts, it was not long until Julie was racing-and winning. From the start, sexism against Julie was fierce. Male riders colluded against her, closing gaps and boxing her horse in by the rail. Though kind and patient with her horses, Krone competed ferociously against her fellow male jockeys.

When Yves Truscott knocked into her horse during a race in , she shoved him off the scales during the post-race weigh in.

She punched Miguel Rujano in after his whip hit her ear during a race, before belting him with a chair. In , she was fined for brawling with Joe Bravo-and knocking out several of his teeth. By age 25, Julie was the first woman ever to win a riding title at a major track, the first woman ever to win five races in one day at a New York track, and one of three jockeys ever to win six races on one card.

In , she became the first female winner of a Triple Crown race, riding to-1 long-shot Colonial Affair to victory in the Belmont Stakes-"showing the patience, intelligence and tactical savvy that have made her one of the nation's leading performers," wrote William Nack of Sports Illustrated.