For this week's #BCConnections, meet exercise rider and assistant trainer Katie Tolbert!
There are people that work with horses and there are people that love horses. In the case of Katie Tolbert, there is no better example of a person that works with horses because of how much she loves them. You see the devotion on a quiet morning on the backside of Churchill Downs as she sits in the saddle, stroking the neck of the horse she’s astride or ponying alongside her. You hear it in the echo of a nicker from an excited trainee, eager for her company, as she makes her way down the shedrow. But you feel it most when she talks about the horses, from the Grade I winners to the young ones still finding their way, as a smile alights her face and excitement sparkles in her eyes. Produced with the TDN Source