Rosie Napravnik

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rosie Napravnik
Occupation	Horse Jockey
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1988(1988-02-09)
Age	36
Birthplace	Mendham Borough
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Aquarius

Rosie Napravnik Biography

Rosie Napravnik is one of the most popular and richest Horse Jockey who was born on February 9, 1988 in Mendham Borough, New Jersey, United States. She was an American horse jockey, and one of the best female riders in the world. In 2012 she won the Breeders Cup Juvenile.

She owes a lot of her success to She owes a lot to female jockey trailblazer Julie Krone. , a female jockey trailblazer .

Napravnik was born in her grandmother’s home in Mendham, New Jersey, on February 9, 1988. Shortly after she was born, she was sent to a hospital in Morristown, New Jersey, which is often mistakenly listed as her location of birth. Her father Charles is a farrier and her mother Cindy ran a boarding and training stable, plus trained event horses. She has one older sister, Jasmine (known as “Jazz”), and a brother, Colt. Napravnik began working with horses at a very young age. Her first horse-related injury was a broken arm that occurred when she fell off a pony at age four. By the age of seven, she began to ride in pony races, and, inspired by the documentary Jewels of the Triple Crown, she decided that year to become a jockey who rode Triple Crown races. She spent most of her childhood in New Jersey, but lived briefly in Vermont with her mother after the divorce of her parents, though she spent summers with her sister Jazz, who was living in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Anna Rose “Rosie” Napravnik (born February 9, 1988) is a former American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and two-time winner of the Kentucky Oaks. Beginning her career in 2005, she was regularly ranked among the top jockeys in North America in both earnings and total races won. By 2014 she had been in the top 10 by earnings three years in a row and was the highest-ranked woman jockey in North America. In 2011, she won the Louisiana Derby for her first time and was ninth in the 2011 Kentucky Derby with the horse Pants on Fire. In 2012 she became the first woman rider to win the Kentucky Oaks, riding Believe You Can and then winning the race for a second time in 2014 on Untapable. She is only the second woman jockey to win a Breeders’ Cup race and the first to win more than one, having won the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Shanghai Bobby and the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Untapable. Napravnik’s fifth-place 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.

Her father was a horse trainer.

Rosie Napravnik Net Worth

Rosie Napravnik is one of the richest Horse Jockey from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rosie Napravnik 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was raised around horses in New Jersey.

By the age of 25, she had won over 1,600 races.

Napravnik’s success has come in a sport where only 10% of all jockeys are women, even though they have been licensed as jockeys in pari-mutuel races since 1969. She initially was uncomfortable finding herself viewed as a role model for girls, preferring to simply be noticed as a top jockey. She became aware that she could have a positive impact on others and that helped her be more comfortable with her prominence. She still prefers to emphasize her riding prowess, and stated in 2014, “If you show your work ethic and professionalism and obvious skill and ability, that is what is going to win somebody over.”

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Who is Rosie Napravnik Dating?

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Horse owner Ken Ramsey, who knows Napravnik and Sharp well, says the couple are likable and well-respected, saying “They go together like ham and eggs.” Sharp had Napravnik ride a horse for him at Penn National in 2009, and they began dating a few months later, becoming engaged in 2011. Sharp, a horse trainer, was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is an only child and grew up around horses. His father, Marc Sharp, is a trainer who also owns a horse farm near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. His mother, Sara Escudero, was an exercise rider. The pair divorced and Sharp split his time between them, growing up in Kentucky and West Virginia.

Facts & Trivia

Rosie Ranked on the list of most popular Horse Jockey. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Rosie Napravnik celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.

Like many other women jockeys, she views the primary challenge to be the difficulty of horse racing itself. She describes races as “every man for himself (sic).” She does not ask for any breaks from male jockeys, and has explained that horse racing is a sport where women simply have to be just as good as men. She speaks well of other successful women jockeys, and expresses a lot of respect in particular for Julie Krone, to whom she is often compared. But she also said in a 2011 interview, “a lot of young female riders are just girls who love horses, but they just don’t have the strength and toughness, and they’re not cut out to be jockeys. You’ve got to deliver the goods to get over that hump.”

Top Facts about Rosie Napravnik

1. Rosie Napravnik is a retired American jockey.
2. She won over 1,800 races in her career.
3. Napravnik was the first female jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks twice.
4. She also won the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in 2014.
5. In 2013, she became the first female jockey to win the Louisiana Derby.
6. Napravnik retired from racing in 2014 due to injuries and starting a family.
7. She was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2021.
8. Napravnik now works as a bloodstock agent and trainer.
9. Her husband, Joe Sharp, is also a successful horse trainer.
10. Napravnik has been an advocate for women’s rights in horse racing.

What is Rosie Napravnik doing now?

Since she retired from racing, Napravnik has supported thoroughbred aftercare organizations and is on the board of Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement farm. She also runs her Off-Track Sporthorses organization that works with horse owners and trainers to help transition thoroughbreds off the track.

Is Rosie Napravnik married?

Napravnik married Joe Sharp in October 2011. He is three years older than Napravnik, and has a daughter, Aiyana, born in 2005, whose mother is jockey Chamisa Goodwin. Napravnik and Sharp have two sons together, Carson, born in 2015 and Tucker, born 2016.

Who was the first female jockey to ride in all three Triple Crown races?

NEW YORK (AP) — Rosie Napravnik is set to become the first female jockey to ride in all three Triple Crown races in the same year, and the first to try and win one aboard a filly.

How tall is Rosie Napravnik?

5′ 2″

Has there ever been a female jockey in Kentucky Derby?

Crump doubled up as the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. A few months later in 1969, Barbara Jo Rubin rode into the record books as the first female jockey to ride a winner. But it was Julie Krone who performed the grunt work in dispelling from the sport most of the old prejudices.