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Year
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Starts
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1st
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2nd
|
3rd
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Earnings
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W rank
|
W %
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ITM %
|
|
2008-2009 meet
|
449
|
86
|
67
|
61
|
$1,127,311
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2nd
|
19.1
|
47.7
|
|
2007-2008 meet
|
385
|
63
|
56
|
45
|
$850,256
|
2nd
|
16.4
|
42.6
|
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Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Tampa Stakes Wins
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Year
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Race
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Winner
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Trainer
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Owner
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2009
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Sophomore Fillies
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Snow Lass
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Lynne Scace
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Bridlewood Farm
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Born: July 5, 1972
Birthplace: Hollywood, FL
Residence: Miami
Family: Parents
First Win: Mezanotty, 1992, Calder Race Course
Started Riding: 1992
Circuit: TampaBayDowns, Delaware Park, Presque Isle Downs
Born on July 5, 1972 in Hollywood, FL, Homeister started her life with horses at a very early age: her mother, Rosemary, is a trainer and her father was an exercise rider. “I just fell in love with it because my mother and father were at the races every day and working in the morning. I was always around the riders and the horses. I lived on a farm with my own horses so it was just in my blood growing up. Actually from when I was two, I knew that I wanted to be a jockey,” Homeister has said of her calling.
Homeister began her life on the racetrack as an exercise rider and breaking yearlings before beginning her riding apprenticeship in 1992. Homeister found her first career victory in that year at Calder Race Course aboard Mezanotty, and continued riding with great success that year, becoming the first female to win the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in the United States. Homeister is one of only five female riders to compete in the Kentucky Derby, and says that it is a feat that she would like to repeat – “But next time I want to win!”
Since then, Homeister has won more than 1700 races at tracks in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and along the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New York. Every time she wins a race, Homeister winks and blows a kiss to the camera. She explains that this grew out of her love for her Grandfather. “My grandpa is number one; he is my number one fan in the entire world. He goes to the Meadowlands every single day to watch simulcasting to watch me ride. I don't know (how it came about), just one day, I think I talked to him in the morning and I said, ‘I ride so many races that if I win I am going to blow you a kiss to let you know that I know you are watching me.’ I won, I blew him a kiss and I do it every time I win and it became a trademark.” Homeister was the second leading jockey overall in the 2008-2009 Tampa Bay Downs meet, haltering 86 wins in 94 days.