September, 2018 - Margaret Murie - Maple Smash

Margaret Thomas Murie (1902-2003)

Born in Seattle Washington, and relocated at the age of 5 to Fairbanks, Alaska, “Mardy” is recognized as the “Grandmother of the Conservation Movement” by both the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society.  After becoming the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines, and marrying her husband in 1924, she moved to Jackson Wyoming where she accompanied her husband in studying ecology and the elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. She was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the passage of the Wilderness Act of 2964, and the recipient of the Audobon Medal, the John Muir Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After her husband’s death in 1963, Mardy continued the conservation work and became writing articles and letters, as well as making public speeches. She returned to Alaska to survey for the National Parks Service, and worked on the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act signed by Carter in 1980, doubling the size of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 

The Drink:

Maple Smash
1 oz gin
1 oz maple brandy
juice from half a lemon
7-8 blueberries
1/4 oz maple syrup

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

Comments: *AZ requests to lower Accessibility to at least 3 retrospectively. The maple liquor wasn't that easy to find.

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Alice Eastwood - A Cure for What Ails You

Alice Eastwood (1859-1953)

Born in Toronto Canada, was an early ecofeminist.  The family moved to Denver when she was a teenager, and would forgo college in lieu of teaching high school after graduating as valedictorian. She was a self-taught botanist, relying on botany manuals and local experience. She was known to wander the Rocky Mountains by herself looking for specimens, including climbing Mount Whitney. In 1891, her specimen collection was reviewed by the California Academy of Sciences, and she was hired to assist in the CAS’s Herbarium, being promoted to joint-curator in 1892. During her life she published over 310 scientific articles, and authored 395 land plant species names.  She strongly advocated that local American flora should be preserved, and protected against disappearance or natural disasters. There are currently 17 recognized species named for her. She was also well known for her disregard of social convention, especially on how a lady should dress, and in her degree of candor. 

The Drink:

A Cure for What Ails You
2 1/2 oz mead
1 1/2 oz ginger beer
1 oz lemon juice

Drinkability: 3 - 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 3
Taxic Diversity: 3
Priority for Conservation: 3 - 4

Comments: Opinions differed depending on how well you like spicy ginger beer. 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Ellen Richards - Mead-Hattan

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) 

Born in Dunstable, MA, an only child, and was home schooled until the family moved to Westford in 1859. Her gift with Latin, French, and German made her in demand and allowed her to further her studies. She enrolled at Vassar College as a “special student” in 1868, graduating 2 years later with her bachelors, followed by a Masters by 1870. She was the one of the first women to break into the world of chemistry, and the first woman to attend MIT. She also worked as an unpaid chemistry lecturer at MIT from 1873-1878. Her passion became environmental nutrition and clean water, gathering 40,000 samples to study water quality in Massachusetts. This led to the development of the “Richards’ Normal Chlorine Map” which was predictive of inland water pollution in MA. She fought continually not only for water purity and her “humanist ecologist” cause, but for women’s equality, arguing that women’s unpaid labor in the home was the foundation of their second-class status and what kept modern capitalism in motion

The Drink

Mead-hattan
2 oz rye
2 oz cyser (a mead made with apple juice, a kind of half-mead/half-cider)
dash orange bitters

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

Comments: President and Secretary agree that for a Manhattan, it's a 5+, Opal Hush added a dash of leftover honey syrup to hers and said it was much more to her liking. 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and Boiler Maker

September, 2018 - Florence Baily - Bramble Variation

Florence Augusta Merriam Baily (1863 – 1948)
Born in Locust Grove, NY, grew to became not only an ornithologist, and one of America’s first activists for the protection of birds, but also published the first bird field guide, Birds Through an Opera-Glass, published in 1890.  When she first started her study, the standards were based on collections of skins; but she wanted to study the living birds in the field. After college, she moved to Washington and helped organize the Audobon Society of D.C. in 1897, and began to teach classes on birds the following year.  Because of her activist work, she was also instrumental in the passing of the Lacey Act of 1900 that banned illegally traded wildlife to be sold across state lines. After marrying she would do extensive field work with her husband in the American West, and documented her studies in several books, including The Handbook of Birds of the Western United States and The Birds of New Mexico. In 1908, a subspecies of mountain chickadee was named in her honor; and in 1992, a mountain the southern Oregon Cascade Range was named in honor of both her and her husband by the Oregon Geographic Names Board.

The Drink

Bramble Variation
3 blackberries
1 oz gin
1 oz berry mead
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz honey syrup

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 1
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 5

  Comments: "AZ, you'd better find more raspberry mead, because we're going to need more of this for the Christmas party." 

From "Women in Conservation" hosted by Alabazam and BoilerMaker

June, 2018 - Robyn Smith - The Belmont Jewel

Robyn Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her biological father deserted her and her 17 year old mother at her birth. Melody's mother was declared mentally unstable and Melody was placed in a foster home. She was adopted and renamed Caroline Smith. Later, after a grueling court battle, she was returned to her birth mother. When her mother's mental illness reappeared, she was placed back in the care of her adoptive family. She became a jockey in 1969, winning the Paumonok Handicap at Aqueduct in 1973 riding North Sea. She became the first woman to win a major race in the USA. Despite the difficulty she had getting respect, an agent and mounts, by '72 she was the top American-born jockey--of either gender—at Aqueduct Racetrack, where her winning percentage that year was second only to Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero's. On Jan. 1, 1973, at Santa Anita, Smith was preparing for her first mount of the year when a friend introduced her to Fred Astaire, 46 years her senior. Astaire asked whether he should put money on her horse, Exciting Devorcee, and Smith assured him it was a bad idea. He paid no heed, and when the horse beat Willie Shoemaker's mount by a nose, Smith had won her first race at Santa Anita, Astaire had won his wager on a long shot, and the seeds of a great romance had been planted. "I used to kid him and say, 'Oh, you fell in love with me when I won that race,'" says Robyn. In '80 she became Robyn Smith Astaire, and within four months she had left the horse racing circuit to spend more time with her new husband and because Fred was concerned for her safety. She remained married to Astaire until his death in 1987. Although she has tenaciously, and at times controversially, tried to control the use of her husband's image--her efforts helped lead to the passage of a California law limiting the use of deceased celebrities' likenesses--she still needed to satisfy her own competitive urges. "I didn't know what I was going to do with the rest of my life because I'd always been active," says Robyn. "I'm not one to sit home and eat potato chips and watch soap operas." After getting career counseling, she decided to become a helicopter pilot, and flying became her new passion. She started in choppers, worked her way up to jets and now works as a corporate pilot. 

The Drink

The Belmont Jewel - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes since 2011
1.5 oz bourbon
2 oz lemonade
1 oz pomegranate juice

Drinkability: 5
Drunkability: 2
Accessbility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: We understand why they changed it. This is much easier to batch for a large crowd. The crowds at Belmont are supposed to be terrible.

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Julieann Louise Krone - White Carnation

Julieann Louise "Julie" Krone (born July 24, 1963), is a retired American jockey. In 1993, she became the first (and so far only) female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. In 2000, she became the first woman inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and in 2003 became the first female jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race. Because of her success in the face of severe injuries sustained while racing, Krone was named by USA Today as one of the 10 Toughest Athletes and was honored with the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award by the Women's Sports Foundation. In October 2013 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. She has also been honored by induction into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. She made her debut as a jockey on Jan. 30, 1981, at Tampa Bay Downs in Florida, on a horse named Tiny Star. She won her first race on Feb. 12, 1981, also at Tampa Bay Downs, aboard Lord Farkle. Within a few years her success made her a well-known racing personality. Krone was the only woman to win riding championships at Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, The Meadowlands and Atlantic City Race Course. She would go on to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the issue of May 22, 1989, one of only eight jockeys so recognized (only one other was a woman, Robyn Smith). In 1993 she received an ESPY Award as Female Athlete of the Year. Krone retired for the first time on April 18, 1999 and embarked upon a broadcasting career. She then came out of retirement in November 2002. After a good start to the 2003 season, she fractured two bones in her lower back and spent the next four months recovering. She returned to lead the 2003 Del Mar jockeys in purse earnings, then went on to become the first woman jockey to win a Breeders' Cup race when she rode Halfbridled to victory in the 2003 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita. On December 12, 2003, just weeks after her Breeders' Cup win, she broke several ribs and suffered severe muscle tears in a fall. Though not fully recovered from her injuries, Krone attempted to come back on February 14, 2004, at Santa Anita Park, but failed to win in three races. She did not ride again; on July 8 of that year, she made a statement in which she did not officially retire, but strongly hinted that she would never race again. 

The Drink

White Carnation - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes until 1997
2 oz orange juice
2 oz vodka
.5 oz peach schnapps
one can soda
splash of cream

Drinkability: 1
Drunkability: 2
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 0

Comments:  Fizzy milk.  Odd.  Bandit Queen likes it. 

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Anna Rose Napravnik - The Belmont Breeze

Anna Rose "Rosie" Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) began her career in 2005 at Pimlico and has been regularly ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won. She initially rode under the name "A.R. Napravnik" to conceal her gender. She acknowledges the struggles for equality that women riders in earlier generations had to face were greater than her own, but notes that women jockeys still "fight a battle.“ In her early career, she simply tried to "blend in" with the male riders, but nonetheless encountered some owners and trainers who refused to hire a female jockey. She later said, "I was very conscious when I raced against their horses—and when I beat them.“ Napravnik has encountered harassment from male jockeys on the track when other riders would deliberately bump her or pen in her horse from all sides. In a 2013 interview with 60 Minutes, Napravnik said that she has heard hecklers at the track yell at her to "go home and have a baby," or "go home and stay in the kitchen.“ In 2011, she won the Louisiana Derby for her first time, and was the first female winner, and was ninth in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, the sixth woman to ride in that race. In 2012, she broke the total wins and earnings record for a woman jockey previously held by Julie Krone, in the process becoming the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, riding Believe You Can, winning the race for a second time in 2014 on Untapable. She then rode in the Belmont Stakes for the first time, finishing fifth aboard Five Sixteen. Later that year, she won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile aboard Shanghai Bobby, becoming only the second woman jockey to win a Breeder's Cup race. She is the first to win more than one, also winning the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff on Untapable. Napravnik's fifthplace finish in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and third in the 2013 Preakness Stakes on Mylute are the best finishes for a woman jockey in those two Triple Crown races to date, and she is the only woman to have ridden in all three Triple Crown races. She is also the first to have run in all three Triple Crown races in the same year, doing so in 2013 and 2014. After her win in the 2014 Breeders' Cup Distaff, Napravnik announced she was seven weeks pregnant and taking a "retirement" of "indefinite" duration from race riding following the 2014 Breeders' Cup. She continues to assist her husband in training race horses, including 2017 Kentucky Derby contender Girvin. 

The Drink:

The Belmont Breeze - official cocktail of the Belmont Stakes 1997-2010
1.5 oz bourbon
.5 oz dry sherry
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz simple syrup
splash of orange juice
splash of cranberry juice
5 mint leaves

Drinkability: 3
Drunkability: 3.5
Accessibilty: 4
Taxic Diversity: 4
Priority for Conservation: 4

Comments: 

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Patty Cooksey - Black-Eyed Susan

Patricia Cooksey (born February 25, 1958 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American horse racing jockey. She won her first race with Turf Advisor at Waterford Park (now Mountaineer Park) in 1979. A four-time Turfway Park leading rider, Cooksey has won 2,137 wins since beginning her career in 1979, and she was the all-time leading female jockey by number of victories before Julie Krone overtook her. In 1985 she became the first female jockey to ride in the Preakness Stakes, finishing 6th aboard Tajawa. In 2004, she became the first ever female jockey to be voted the NYRA's Mike Venezia Memorial Award, an honor given annually to a jockey who exemplifies extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship. Cooksey now resides in Georgetown, Kentucky. She is retired from racing and currently works for the Kentucky Racing Commission. In 2006, she was a horse-back riding reporter for ESPN's coverage of the 2006 Breeders' Cup.

The Drink

Black-Eyed Susan (official cocktail of the Preakness Stakes since 1973)
1 oz bourbon
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
2 oz orange juice
2 oz sour mix

Drinkability: 4
Drunkability: 3
Accessibility: 4
Taxic Diversity: 2
Priority for Conservation: 3.5

Comments: "peachy!"

From "Women Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle

June, 2018 - Diane Crump - Mint Julep

Diane Crump was born in 1948 in Milford, Connecticut. Her family moved to Oldsmar, Florida, and she began taking riding lessons when she was 13. On February 7, 1969, Crump became the first woman to compete as a professional jockey in the United States. She rode a horse named Bridle 'n Bit at Hialeah Park Race Track. There was so much hostility to a woman riding in a horse race that she needed a police escort to get to the track. Crump ultimately finished 9th in the 12-horse race and returned to cheers of support. Two weeks later, Crump rode her first winning race. She said, “The crowd was just swarming all over me. They were crazy, up in arms. . .The hecklers were yelling: 'Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner.' That was the mentality at the time. They thought I was going to be the downfall of the whole sport, which is such a medieval thought. I was like: 'Come on people, this is the 1960s!‘” The previous year, two women had been forced out of horse races they had entered after male jockeys threw rocks at the trailers used as locker rooms by the women and threatened a boycott. The situation changed at Hialeah because the track officials threatened sanctions against the male jockeys. In 1970, she became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump won the first race on the underdcard that day, and then on a horse name Fathom, came in 15th in a 17-horse field in the Derby. By the time she ended her racing career in 1985, she had ridden to 235 wins. In a race in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s, she realized the male jockey behind her was holding onto her saddle, basically getting a free ride during the race. She began to hit him with her stick but he eventually pulled away from her and won the race. Crump retired for a time in 1985 and beginning in 1991 worked as a trainer for a small stable of horses at the Middleburg Training Center in Virginia. She resumed race riding in 1992 and rode races through 1998. She now runs an equine sales business. 

The Drink:

Mint Julep (official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby since 1938)
2oz bourbon
1oz simple syrup
Mint

Drinkability:  3
Drunkability:  4.5
Taxic Diversity:  4
Accessibility:  2
Priority for Conservation:  5

Comments:  Cheers to Dinae Crump! First woman to compete as a professional jockey in the U.S.

From "Female Jockeys" hosted by Fluffy Ruffle