When Julie Krone was riding, it was always on to the next race, on to the next day, on to the next track, allowing precious little time to celebrate her accomplishments, no matter how unprecedented they were.
“When you are younger,” she said, “you are so in the moment.”
Now that she is 55 years old, a wife to Daily Racing Form executive columnist Jay Hovdey and a doting mother to 13-year-old Lorelei, she has time to put perspective on it all.
“I went through all these different phases. Now I look at it that it’s really cool. I really did that,” she said.