Eva Ring

Eva Ring (1911 to 1989) was one of the first women to ride and train winning racehorses in Canada, working in the 1930s and 1940s when women could not obtain a jockey licence or ride in flat races beside men. Some women of the period turned up at the track disguised as male jockeys, and her early photographs show that disguise. She rode at venues that required no licence, such as bush tracks, county fairs and exhibition grounds, and was covered as a favourite in regional newspapers including the Edmonton Journal. Around the middle to late 1940s she stopped riding and became a licensed trainer, one of few women training on the Western Circuit, working for Saskatchewan breeder Bill Little at Swift Water Stud. In 2026 she was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame as a Legend.