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Year
|
Starts
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1st
|
2nd
|
3rd
|
Earnings
|
W rank
|
W %
|
ITM %
|
|
2008-2009 meet
|
449
|
86
|
67
|
61
|
$1,127,311
|
2nd
|
19.1
|
47.7
|
|
2007-2008 meet
|
385
|
63
|
56
|
45
|
$850,256
|
2nd
|
16.4
|
42.6
|
|
Rosemary Homeister, Jr. Tampa Stakes Wins
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Year
|
Race
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Winner
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Trainer
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Owner
|
|
2009
|
Sophomore Fillies
|
Snow Lass
|
Lynne Scace
|
Bridlewood Farm
|
Born: July 5, 1972
Birthplace: Hollywood, FL
Residence: Citrus Park, FL
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 2,000 races at tracks in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and along the East Coast of the United States from Florida to New York. Homeister is now the second leading female jockey of all time, behind only Julie Krone. Homeister was the second leading jockey overall in the 2008-2009 Tampa Bay Downs meet, haltering 86 wins in 94 days.