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July 2001 issue
The headline from July 2001 read:
Chantal Sutherland Wants to be a Great Rider!
Chantal grew up in Palgrave, Ontario after her family had moved there from Winnipeg, Manitoba when she was a baby. Her father was with the Canadian Tire Corporation and had a store in Bolton and that is when the family started to get involved with horses.
In her rst full year of riding Chantal’s hope was to become a better rider. “.....I knew it was going to be hard to get into but once you’re in you realize how dif cult and how challenging it really is. It really is just how much you can stick it out and I think it would be really easy just to quit.”
“I love the sport and there is nothing else in this world that I would rather do and I’m going to stick it out and hope that I can make a living.....]more than make a living, I want to be great.”
I think it is safe to say that she showed us she was that and more.
Her rst win as a rider was October 9, 2000 at Woodbine aboard the Stanley Baresich trained Silver Bounty for owners B and B Racing Stable (James H. Iselin & Marvin Little Jr.). October 20 to 25 Chantal rode three more winners and stopped riding to save her 10 pound bug for next year.
2001 was Chantal’s breakout year winning 59 races worth close to $2 million in purses which earned
her the 2001 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Apprentice. Chantal more than doubled her achievements in 2002 recording 136 wins and close to $6 million in purses. She recorded four wins on the June 29 card, Biddy’s Lad, trained by Mike Doyle for Spring eld Stable and Dura Racing, gave the rising star her rst Stakes win on July 28 in the Bull Page followed by Richard Englander’s Lucky Molar, trained by Michael Wright Jr. in the Seagram Cup as well as the Valedictory H on Woodbine’s closing day Dec 1. Her rst Graded Stakes win was aboard the Tom O’Keefe trained, Mulrainy, owned by Wings of Erin Farm (my Dad yay!), in the G3 Duchess Stakes August 8 followed by another win with Mulrainy in the La Lorgnette on Sept 28.
Chantal earned her second Sovereign Award for Outstanding Apprentice in 2002 and looked toward a successful journeyman career. Like most riders losing the bug weight advantage took its toll and by the end 2004 Chantal was looking to return to her former success and returned to the New York circuit where she rst honed her riding skills as an exercise rider.
A tough colony to get a foothold Chantal returned to Woodbine in 2007 before wintering in California
where it once again it all came together and she recorded the best four years earning more than half of her career wins and more than $27 million in purses and recording many new rsts for herself and female jockeys in general.
In 2012 Chantal’s modeling career took off with features in Vanity Fair magazine by Bo Derek, sponsorship deals and more.
Later that year Chantal announced her retirement from racing to focus on her husband, slow down and enjoy her life.
However the thrill of riding drew her back quickly and after a one year return to Woodbine in 2014 Chantal has been back riding at Santa Anita since.
More Info Visit ChantalSutherlandJockey.com
Mysterious Affair, pictured here with Conrad Belaire, captured her fourth consecutive win and seventh
in her last nine starts when she won the $100,000 Ballade Stakes at Woodbine.
Conrad, who
owned a trucking
company returned to Woodbine three years ago to continue working with Trainer/Owner Mort Hardy whom he began working with in 1967. Conrad left the track for a short while but missed the racetrack and came back to continue working with Mort.
Both Conrad and Mort are still at Woodbine today.
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