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Best of 2019: Barbara Jo Rubin returns to CT

by The Biz | Jan 2, 2020 | Breaking, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |

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 pioneer Rubin, history takes back seat to horses

by Frank Vespe | Feb 26, 2019 | Breaking, Features, Top Stories, West Virginia, WV Racing | 1 |

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.

Barbara Jo Rubin, modest pioneer, feted at Charles Town

by Ted Black | Feb 22, 2019 | Breaking, Features, West Virginia, WV Business | 0 |

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.