Julie Krone

Julie Krone is a retired American jockey, born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, who was a show horse rider as a child and became a professional Thoroughbred jockey inspired by Steve Cauthen. She rode her first race on January 30, 1981, at Tampa Bay Downs and won her first on February 12 of that year. In 1993 she became the first woman to win a Triple Crown race when she took the Belmont Stakes on Colonial Affair, and in 2003 she became the first woman to win a Breeders' Cup race, on Halfbridled in the Juvenile Fillies. In 2000 she was the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. She won riding championships at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands and Atlantic City, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1989 and later worked in racing broadcasting.