Sandy Schleiffers

Jockeying for Position Sandy Schleiffers

Its said that amazing things happen when youre in the right place at the right time. Right place, right time was a reality one early morning as I walked down the shed row of the barn at the racetrack toward my boss, Jim. I will never forget him looking up from the newspaper and saying to me, Well, jock, do you want to ride races? I was so angry when he said that because in those days, women were not allowed to be jockeys. I remember thinking, I am as good as any guy on a horse but I cant ride races because it is a male dominated sport. Jim looked at me and said, Look at this article in the paper. Sure enough, a woman, Kathy Kusner,