Page 20 - August 2019 Thoroughbred Highlight
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That One Horse
Jockey Corrine Andros, Khaled Fawzy & Bullet
When you see the word Bullet on her riding pants you may think it references her style of riding “faster than a speeding bullet” but for this real life super girl Bullet is the horse that brought her back to life.
Corrine Andros spent her childhood among
the horses splitting her time between her sister’s ranch in Alberta and the vast interior countryside of Vanderhoof, British Columbia where she was born.
Riding came naturally to Corrine as she spent her days competing in Gymkhana events delighting in the speed and agility needed to round poles and barrels in competition.
By age 14 Corrine was training the family’s Quarter Horses on the farm preparing them for their duties as pleasure and western trail riding horses. Eventually she took on an outside horse to train and it wasn’t long before she had other clients knocking at her gates thus starting her own business which carried
her through her years at school.
Looking for ways to make more income Corrine set
her sights on bull riding, a rodeo event which is touted as the most dangerous eight seconds in sports. Corrine rode a few bareback broncs and steers, but no bulls, because, thanks to the suggestion of a farrier at her farm, she enrolled in the Exercise Rider and Jockey Training course at Olds College instead.
Completing the course in 2011 Corrine began
as a freelance exercise rider at Northlands Park in Edmonton for a year and wintered at Ciaran and Amy Dunne’s Wavertree Stables in Florida training sale horses and starting young two year olds at the farm.
After the winter Corrine returned to British Columbia where top trainer Greg Tracy asked her to come
work for him which is where her practical learning to become a jockey began.
Travelling south with the Tracy barn that winter,
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