Our Best of 2019 series revisits the stories, interviews, and videos that our readers or editors loved most last year. Here, Barbara Jo Rubin’s return.
For Barbara Jo Rubin, the first woman to win a US race, it was always about the horses – and never about the history she made.
Fifty years later, Barbara Jo Rubin – “First girl jockey ever to win a race in the US,” according to the offical win photo – returned to Charles Town Friday to be honored for her historic win.
Barbara Jo Rubin, first American female jockey to win against men, will be feted Feb. 22 at Charles Town, where she earned her landmark win.
Today in Racing History, Barbara Jo Rubin made her Pimlico debut a successful one, earning the first win by a woman rider in Maryland.