Veteran jockey Chantal Sutherland back riding full-time at Woodbine
TORONTO — Chantal Sutherland is home again.
After years south of the border, the veteran jockey will again ride full-time at Woodbine Racetrack, whose 2018 thoroughbred schedule begins Saturday. Sutherland, 42, was born in Winnipeg but grew up on a horse farm in Caledon, Ont., located roughly 40 kilometres north of Toronto.
She’s raced throughout the U.S., and in Hong Kong and Dubai, but has always called Woodbine home and has even purchased a house in nearby Bolton, Ont.
“Woodbine is such a great place,” she said. “The surfaces are great, there’s a training track, main track, training turf course and main turf course.