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She was bom in County Cork, ironically, the birthplace of steeplechasing.
When,Elliot came here in the late 1960s she had no such visions of grandeur. She just wanted to be a part of the sport.
Her first racing work was with Betty Byrd, and then with Sheppard. It was with Sheppard that she would make her best connections.
“While I was at Jonathan’s I was asked to train a horse for Kip Elser,” Elliot said. “The horse was Too Few Stripes. He was a nice horse and did well. Things sort of fell into place then.”
But 1991 would be the one for her scrapbook — that was the year Elliot made her mark, breaking all kinds of barriers in American steeplechasing.
Elliot became the first female leading trainer with 31 wins worth more than $825,000.
She has no desire to go back to her roots.
“I like it here,” Elliot said. “I like the climate and the fact we have daylight longer and actual daylight in the winter. But it’s tough on the horses when we have no rain, like now.”
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