May 2015 - Julieann Louise Krone - Gravesend Smash

Julieann Louise “Julie” Krone 

Born in 1963, Julie started her equine career as a show horse rider in Western Michigan.  She made her debut as a jockey in 1982, at Tampa Bay Downs, on Tiny Star, and won her first race a month later aboard Lord Farkle.  She became a well known racing personality within only a few years, being the only woman to win riding championships at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands, and Atlantic City Race Course.  In 1993 became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she won the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair.  In that same year, she received an ESPY Award as Female Athlete of the Year.  In 2000, she became the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.  She’s also been honored by induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and Cowgirl Hall of Fame.  She briefly retired in 1999 to try broadcasting horse races, but came out of retirement in 2002 – and went back into retirement in 2003 after fracturing two bones in her lower back.  She returned again later in 2003 to be the first woman to win a Breeders’ Cup race aboard Halfbridled.  Just weeks after, she broke several ribs and suffered severe muscle tears during a fall.  Due to her success in the face of severe inuries (over and over again), Krone was named USA Today’s top 10 Toughest Athletes and was honored by the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award by the Women’s Sports Foundation.  In 2013 she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

The Drink:

Gravesend Smash (a Breeder's Cup Cocktail)

2 oz moonshine

¾ oz st. germain

1/4^th grapefruit (medium, not large)

1/2 tsp pink peppercorns (divided)

muddle grapefruit and 1/2 pink peppercorn, add st. germain and moonshine, shake with ice, top with last bit of pink peppercorn

Drinkability:  2
Drunkability:  5
Taxic Diversity:  3
Accessibility:  2
Priority for Conservation:  4

Comments:  *Due to potential fresh grapefruit allergy, grapefruit was subbed with pomplemousse rose)  - this took a long time to drink - "hard but good"

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Alabazam