Chantal Sutherland-Kruse - Biography

Birthdate: February 23, 1976 Birthplace: Winnipeg, Ontario, Canada Residence: Sierra Madre, Calif., and Toronto, Canada Family: Married to Dan Kruse.

Web site: www.jockeychantalsutherland.com

Career Stats (through Sept. 10, 2013)

Mounts 1 - 2 - 3 Earnings 7,366 931 – 932 – 989 $47,321,674

Career Highlights

• Sutherland-Kruse returned from a brief retirement of less than nine months on June 8, 2013 at Del Mar in California. At age 36, she announced that retirement on Oct. 21, 2012 after riding two races at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada.

• Schooled with riders and trainers in the U.S. before accepting her first mount at Woodbine in 2000.

• Won her first career race on Oct. 9, 2000 at Woodbine on Silver Bounty, who paid $54.50 to win.

• Recorded her first stakes victory on July 28, 2002 at Woodbine when Biddy’s Lad took the Bull Page Stakes.

• Won her first graded stakes riding for Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens on Smokume in Belmont Park’s Grade II Tom Fool Handicap on July 15, 2005.

• For a decade, she rode regularly at Woodbine with occasional visits to the U.S. to ride major stakes races and partial meets at Santa Anita and stakes at Saratoga.

• At Woodbine, she was finished second twice (2008, 2009) and third (2010) in the jockey standings and won five races on a single card on Aug. 9, 2008.

• A two-time winner (2001, 2002) Sovereign Award winner as Canada’s leading apprentice jockey. She had 44 wins for $1.7 million in earnings 2001 and 124 victories with earnings of $5.7 million in 2002.

• Rode 2009 Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to three stakes victories at Woodbine (Silver Deputy, Swynford, and Grey Stakes) and in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita as a two-year-old before he won the Run for the Roses with jockey Calvin Borel the following year. That was her first of four career mounts in the Breeders’ Cup.

• In 2011, moved her tack to Southern California on a full-time basis after “commuting” between there and Canada from 2007 - 2010.

• Became first female jockey ever to win the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in 2011 and Grade 1Hollywood Gold Cup in 2012, both aboard Game On Dude.

• Also became the female rider ever to compete in the world’s richest horse race, the Dubai World Cup in 2012 with Game On Dude.

• Was narrowly beaten (by Drosselmeyer) aboard Game on Dude to finish second in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.

• Had her best year in 2010 when she finished 13th among all North American jockeys with 152 wins from 1,050 mounts and $8,778,038 in earnings.

Personal

• Although Chantal was born on the Canadian Prairie, she grew up on a farm outside of Toronto where her father, Hugh, who owned a Canadian automobile accessories store, trained Standardbreds.

• Began riding at the age of five and soon started showing horses and taking part in dressage and jumping competitions.

• Graduated from Toronto’s York University where she majored in both psychology and mass communications. Played field hockey in college and competed for Canada’s junior World Cup team.

• Named to People Magazine’s “100 Most Beautiful People” list in 2006 alongside such celebrities as Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman, she has also appeared in Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines.

• Appeared in the Animal Planet TV series “Jockeys” and the HBO show “Luck.”