Chantal Sutherland

She finished 31st in the national earnings title in that same year as she earned $5,968,460 with victories of 136 and had 754 mounts.

She finished 38th in the national earnings title with earnings of $5,937,965 and with victories of 116 out of 832 mounts.

She got publicity when she was one of the jockeys featured on the reality tv show Jockeys on Animal Planet.

Chantal Sutherland (born February 23, 1976, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian model, television personality and jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

She is referred to as the Danica Patrick of horse racing.

She is known for her appearances on the reality tv show, Jockeys on Animal Planet, as well as being the poster girl for the Del Mar racetrack.

During an interview on Sky Sports in the lead-up to the Dubai World Cup race, she said that her primary vocation was jockey.

Sutherland grew up in the Toronto, Ontario area where her father Hugh owned a horse farm and trained standardbreds.

As a young girl, she played competitive field hockey and was invited to try out for Canada's junior World Cup team.

She rode horses in equestrian events but after graduating from York University with a degree in communications and psychology, she decided to explore the opportunity to ride Thoroughbreds in flat racing.

She finished 77th in the national earnings title that same year with 79 victories out of 668 mounts with earnings of $3,480,229.

Beginning in the year 2000, the Del Mar Racetrack's Del Mar Thoroughbred Club marketing team went through a major shift in their marketing direction.

They realized they had to attract a more youthful audience as well as a female audience.

They focused Del Mar as a fashionable destination, using social media and other avenues to market the racetrack.

They hired jockey and model Chantal Sutherland to be the new face of the Del Mar racetrack.

Their strategy paid off, as over 13 years later Del Mar has changed their demographics and audience attendance.

On October 9, 2000, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Sutherland won her first career race.

The following year, she was voted the Sovereign Award as Canada's top apprentice jockey, repeating in 2002 when she was one of Canada's highest-paid female athletes, earning $5.7 million in purses in eight months.

She finished third in the Woodbine standings that year with 124 victories with earnings of $5,751,417.

She remained in Canada until the end of 2004.

In the winter of 2004, she rode the winter months in the Maryland Circuit riding at Laurel Park Racecourse.

She participated in the second annual Colombian Emeralds International Jockey Challenge on New Year's Day 2005 in Barbados, guided Maeve ($11.80) to victory in the first race, leading a 'Woodbine' sweep, as Jono Jones (Band Dancer) and Patrick Husbands (Blazing Colours) finished second and third, respectively.

In 2005, she went to race in Florida and New York, where jockeys Ángel Cordero Jr., Shane Sellers and Edgar Prado helped her hone her skills.

In 2006, she partnered Gigawatt to win the Grade 3 Miami Mile Handicap.

Sutherland quickly became a top rider in Canada, but she realized that riding in Canada was never going to land her in the Kentucky Derby or the Breeders' Cup races.

She then relocated to Southern California.

She rode the winter meet at Aqueduct in 2007.

Her highlight in New York was a victory in the Tom Fool Handicap with Smokume at Belmont Park.

During her time in New York, she rode for Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens and trainer Todd Pletcher.

In 2007, she returned to Canada to ride at Woodbine after a 2-year stint in the New York and Florida circuit.

She finished seventh in the Woodbine standings with 69 victories out of 572 mounts with earnings of $3,246,387.

From December 2007 to April 2008, Sutherland competed at Santa Anita Park in California.

Retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens said: "She has become the queen of the longshots. She has won several photos against top jockeys, which shows she is a strong finisher."

Allen Gutterman, Santa Anita racetrack's head of marketing, said Sutherland "could become the best female jockey since Julie Krone."

Sutherland returned to Toronto for the 2008 racing season, and on August 9 she rode five winners on a single race card.

In the summer of 2008, she rode future Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird to stakes wins in the Silver Deputy, Swynford and Grey Stakes at Woodbine and finished 12th aboard Mine That Bird in the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita.

She also rode Van Lear Rose in that year Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies to finish sixth.

She rode the 2008 Oak Tree meeting as she left Canada in October 2008 to ride in California.

She spent a total of 6 months in California as she rode also the 2008 Hollywood Park fall meeting and the 2009 Santa Anita meeting.

In 2008, she finished seventh in the Woodbine standings with earnings of $4,947,630 and had 89 victories out of 590 mounts.