CHANTAL SUTHERLAND is the model named in the world’s 100 Most Beautiful People who swapped photo shoots for riding winners.
Well, that’s a bit of an understatement.
She has won more than £40million in her career in the saddle, bagged over 1000 winners and once posed naked on a horse.
Oh, and she memorably raced one-on-one against her former fiance in an epic ‘battle of the exes’.
Sutherland has just about seen and done it all after riding her first winner in October 2000.
Since then she has gone onto become the face of US racetrack Del Mar, site of this year’s Breeders’ Cup.
There have been the Grade 1 wins – such as the controversial 2011 Santa Anita Handicap victory on Game On Dude – and the season where she won connections more than £6.5m.
But perhaps the most well-known was her ride in a two-runner race against her ex-fiance at Del Mar in 2011.
Chantal, whose looks landed her a four-page spread in Vogue magazine and feature in Sports Illustrated, was engaged to legendary US jock Mike Smith.
They broke off their engagement in June 2010 and just over a year later went head-to-head on horseback.
She has won more than £40million in her career in the saddle, bagged over 1000 winners and once posed naked on a horse.
Oh, and she memorably raced one-on-one against her former fiance in an epic ‘battle of the exes’.
Sutherland has just about seen and done it all after riding her first winner in October 2000.
Since then she has gone onto become the face of US racetrack Del Mar, site of this year’s Breeders’ Cup.
There have been the Grade 1 wins – such as the controversial 2011 Santa Anita Handicap victory on Game On Dude – and the season where she won connections more than £6.5m.
But perhaps the most well-known was her ride in a two-runner race against her ex-fiance at Del Mar in 2011.
Chantal, whose looks landed her a four-page spread in Vogue magazine and feature in Sports Illustrated, was engaged to legendary US jock Mike Smith.
They broke off their engagement in June 2010 and just over a year later went head-to-head on horseback.
