Horse jockey Connie McKenzie finds success in first season riding at North Dakota tracks

Horse jockey Connie McKenzie finds success in first season riding at North Dakota tracks

FARGO — When the North Dakota Horse Park hosted its first-ever race day on Aug. 22, 2003, female jockeys dominated the day by winning five of seven events. The track still attracts its share of women riders these days, but not to the extent it once had. A study published in the Journal of Sports Economics in 2020 estimated that the male-to-female jockey ratio in the United States was roughly 7-to-1. Nonetheless, women have found success in the s…