Donna brothers haircut
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Barton, Donna
1966-
American jockey
American Donna Barton, considered among the most successful female jockeys of all time, is one of only a handful of female jockeys to ride in a Breeders' Cup event. Barton took on her first job as a jockey as a way to earn enough money to attend college. Second only to top-ranked Judy Krone in wins among female jockeys, she had won $4.6 million in purse earnings by 1998.
Born to Ride
Born in New Mexico in 1966, Barton had riding in her blood. Her mother, Patti Barton Browne, raced over 1,200 thoroughbred winners during her pioneering 15-year career as a woman jockey that began in 1969 after the job of jockey was made open to female equestrians. Barton's younger brother Jerry and older sister Leah also worked as jockeys. While growing up, Barton and her family were often on the road because her mother worked as a truck driver and trick rider and her father, Charlie Barton, rode the rodeo circuit. She attended seven schools, then completed high school in three years by taking correspondence courses.
Continuing her education by atten
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TV personality and former jockey Donna Barton Brothers discusses early years in New Mexico
NEW MEXICO – If you watch the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, you’ll probably catch several New Mexicans — one of which is Donna Barton Brothers.
Brothers has long been the first person jockeys speak to after winning Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup World Championship horse races. It happens to be her favorite part of the job.
“I try to get to them while they're still in their heart before they’ve had a chance to get into their head. And those interviews are, for me, almost always very gratifying because when they've won a Triple Crown race or those Breeders’ Cup races their aura of gratitude and love and appreciation is big,” she said. “You end up caught up in that aura of energy that they’re emitting and it's a really nice thing to be a part of.”
Brothers was born in Alamogordo in 1966 with racing in her blood. She lived in the state until she was 6 years old. Her parents divorced when she wasn’t yet 2 years old and she found herself living with several families while her mother earned a
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Donna Barton Brothers
American jockey
Donna Barton Brothers (born April 20, 1966, in Alamogordo, New Mexico) is a former jockey who won over 1,100 horse races and now covers horse racing and other equestrian sports for NBC Sports. She is probably most recognizable for her interviews with the winning jockeys from horseback after the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup races. She is one of the most decorated female jockeys of her time, retiring in 1998 with 1,130 career wins. Brothers hails from a family of riders, including both of her siblings, as well as her mother who was, in 1969, one of the first women to be licensed as a jockey. She resides in Louisville, Kentucky and Saratoga Springs, New York.
Career
Donna Brothers's mother, Patti Barton, was a jockey, as were her brother and sister. Barton (now Brothers) began her professional career as a jockey in 1987. She was one of D. Wayne Lukas 's first-call jockeys in the 1990s and rode numerous stakes winners, at the time making her the second leading money-earner of all time among female Thoroughbred jockeys.
She won
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