“When something like that happens, it’s something that makes you or breaks you in this career.
You can’t be scared when you ride thoroughbreds.” ~ Korina McLean
On any given morning at any given racetrack, an exercise rider can be dropped by a high-strung Thoroughbred racehorse. It is a risk riders consciously accept. When it happens on occasion at Woodbine, a loud air siren goes off, an audible warning to all that a 1,000+ lb animal is on the loose and a danger to anyone in its way. In that wake can lay a stunned human wondering what hit them.
On May 6, 2021, during morning training on the main track at Woodbine, it happened to exercise rider Korina McLean.