Katherine Ritvo
| Kathy Ritvo | |
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Kathy Ritvo at the 2013 Breeders' Cup.
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| Occupation | Horse trainer |
| Born | February 13, 1969 |
| Career wins | 207+ (ongoing) |
| Major racing wins | |
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American Classics / Breeders' Cup wins: Graded stakes races |
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| Racing awards | |
| Lou Smith Memorial Award | |
| Significant horses | |
| Mucho Macho Man, Liberada | |
American Classics / Breeders' Cup wins:
Breeders' Cup Classic (2013)
Graded stakes races
Risen Star Stakes (2011)
Gulfstream Park Handicap (2012)
Suburban Handicap (2012)
Awesome Again Stakes (2013)
Other stakes races
Katherine "Kathy" Ritvo (born February 13, 1969) a race horse trainer who won the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2013 with Mucho Macho Man after having finished a close second in the same race in 2012. She is the first woman to have trained a winner of that race. She also was only the fifth woman trainer to win any Breeders' Cup race, and was the 14th woman trainer to saddle a starter in the Kentucky Derby in the 137 years that race had been run by 2011.
Born Kathy Petro, she grew up in a horse racing family from Massachusetts and married a fellow horseman, Tim Ritvo, in 1990. Kathy and Tim ran a race horse training operation in Florida, and In 2010 she took it over solo when Tim became part of the management of Gulfstream Park race track. Her accomplishments came against the backdrop of having been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2001 and receiving a heart transplant in 2008. In spite of the medication regime and immunity issues that transplant recipients face, she lives a normal life as a horse trainer and shows no signs of organ rejection.
Ritvo was born February 13, 1969, to Peter and Mary Petro. Her family was involved in horse racing, and she was raised in Braintree, Massachusetts. Her parents owned race horses, and after other small business ventures, her father purchased a race track. Her three brothers all established horse racing careers: Michael became a race horse trainer and brothers Louis and Nick became jockeys. Ritvo herself is jockey-sized, standing only 4' 11", and weighing under 100 pounds. She worked for her father as a teenager as a groom, hot walker and exercise rider. She became a licensed trainer when she was 18. Her nephew, Nick Petro, Jr., works for her today as an exercise rider.
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