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April 30, 2004

You Go Girl!

21-year-old Kristin Mulhall will saddle Imperialism in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, and will try to become the first female and youngest trainer in the modern era to win the classic race.

"Even though she's chronologically as young a she is, she's really a grizzled veteran," said Imperialism's owner, who also has 25 other horses with Mulhall. "She's been riding since she was 2 and doing horse business since she was 10."

If Imperialism goes to post as expected, she will become just the 11th woman to saddle a Kentucky Derby starter. If Imperialism wins the May 1 race, she would be the first woman to train a winner of any of the three Triple Crown races ó the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes ó and quite likely the youngest person of either gender to do so, though such records are incomplete.

As if that challenge wasn't enough, she'll be trying to do it with a colt with a physical defect known as a "sunken eye." Source: MSNBC

Cindy

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