00:00Being a mom in racing for me, yes it's challenging but it's so rewarding at the
00:07same time. It's felt really good to me to know that this has made my life, it's
00:13enriched it, it's made it better, it hasn't stifled it, which is what I thought could
00:17happen. I think it's pretty awesome. It's a pretty cool job to have coming home to
00:23her after every race. That's the best feeling in the world I bring cheer with
00:38the baby and spread joy through the baby. She's extremely adorable and
00:44distracting and she looks right at you and kind of locks you in but it makes
00:49everybody happy to see her and then that makes me happy. Oh she's adorable. Thank
00:53you, she's a good girl. My little assistant, the real boss actually. My real boss.
01:04So I never wanted to have kids because I felt like it I wouldn't be able to do my
01:09job with kids. You know it's a struggle enough without kids so I really didn't
01:14think it would be possible at all to have a family and do the job at the level I
01:18was doing it. Nobody has gotten to where they are in the thoroughbred industry
01:22without hours and hours of like blood sweat and tears. So being a mom in racing
01:27to me means creating an example for other women that they can do it and that they
01:33can have a family and still be involved in the industry in whatever way they
01:37want and I think breaking through stereotypes for other women. Would you
01:42like to stand? Would you like to stand? Wow you're so strong. You're amazing.
01:54Ready? Are you riding? I always said you know once I become a mom that's it I could
02:09never be a jockey again and it's a tough one to do because it is very tough out on
02:14the track. You know you do put your life on the line going out to ride horses.
02:19Found out I was pregnant with Emily two weeks after riding the Breeders Cup at
02:23Delmar and I'm like oh great timing. To find out that you're gonna have to stop
02:32riding at the top of your game I mean it was tough to suddenly go okay I have like
02:40I don't have a choice. When I had the opportunity to come back to race again it
02:45was nice it's nice to be able to come back and just enjoy it and have fun and
02:49have your daughter there on the sidelines cheering for you and it was something
02:54that I can't believe that I ever said no I would never do this. I don't know why I
02:59ever doubted myself.
03:02Mommy has to get ready to race. Can you get my boots?
03:05Can you get my boots? Yes I will hold it for a second. Thank you especially as my
03:20mom you know she was a woman in racing who trained for 25 years and raised my
03:25brother and I and now that I get to do it with my daughter Emily it really means a
03:31lot to me and it's kind of it really hits home that what my mom went through means
03:35a whole lot more to me now.
03:40Yeah maybe jog one and then the second lap she can gallop but but slow.
03:48I think when I was pregnant and I first found out I was pregnant I was really
03:54worried that you know I wasn't gonna be able to do it I was really worried I was
03:58gonna have to stop what I was doing or you know completely change what I was
04:03doing and then but you know you just you kind of just do it you know you fall into
04:08it you find your community.
04:10The problem is we put him on his pony and he cries if you take him off so if you're
04:17gonna let him ride you're gonna be there for a while.
04:20Right buddy.
04:22It's not that it's not hard and it's not difficult but you know I think the most difficult part
04:28about it is just just when it's new and in figuring out how to adjust but then you just
04:34kind of fall into it and make it work.
04:37I think the most rewarding part about being a mom especially on the track and at the farm
04:43is that I get to watch my son have a really fun childhood and be a little farm kid and a
04:50little track kid and love animals.
04:52Is that your baby?
04:54Baby.
04:55Don't leave.
04:56Is that your baby?
04:57Awww.
04:58Say awwww.
04:59Is that your baby?
05:00Ha.
05:01Yeah.
05:02The biggest thing is finding your community.
05:07There's so many moms on the racetrack and so if you get in build that community with those moms.
05:18Stay at home moms that's probably even harder than being a working mom you know so I mean
05:23I think that you know moms are kind of the unsung heroes and I don't know I have all new
05:29respect for mine let's put it that way.
05:32Once she understood that mom has to go and ride she got into enjoying watching me come
05:38out and go out and ride and cheering for me on the sideline and I remember one day I was
05:43in the starting gate and I could hear me going go mommy come on mommy you got to win this
05:50mommy I could hear and I was like oh I was like I started like getting tears and I was
05:55like okay alright you got to be a jockey now mom.
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