One got so mad at her that he reached out and grabbed the reins out of her hands going down the stretch. She promptly pummeled the man jockey and was fined. The next time when a male jockey struck her across the face with his whip as she was passing him in the stretch for the win, she waited until that evening and went to the motel where he was sitting outside by the pool. In the resulting tussle, she broke a chair over the man's back and shoved him into the swimming pool. Some criticized her for the fight but most admit that had she not defended and beaten the bullies, they would have done worse to her the next time out and eventually driven her out of racing, if they didn't kill her on the track first.
Jockeys depend on the races they win for most of their income.
The men resent women particularly because of the standard sexism and because so many of the men jockeys have an inferiority complex because of their smallness. Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright notice for non-profit use. Women's Internet Information Network Inc. A non profit organization dedicated to telling herstory.