Donna Barton Brothers

Donna Barton Brothers, born April 20, 1966 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, now serves as an horse-back riding reporter and analyst for NBC Sports' Triple Crown coverage and a reporter and analyst for TVG Network, at Churchill Downs and the Fair Grounds. She also exercises horses at Churchill Downs. She is one of the most decorated female jockeys of her time, retired in 1998 with more than 1,100 career wins and still ranks third on the money list. Brothers hails from a family of riders, including her siblings, as well as her mother who was, in 1969, one of the first women to be licensed as a jockey. She resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Brothers began her professional riding career in 1987. She was one of D. Wayne Lukas' first call jockeys in the 1990s and rode numerous stakes winners, at the time making her the second leading female jockey money earner of all time. Barton retired in 1998, married trainer Frank Brothers, and then became involved in television broadcasting. She started as an interviewer at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans, then as an on-air racing analyst for Churchill Downs. She started in 2001 covering NBC Breeders' Cup as their only reporter on horseback. She attended college from 2002-2005. Presently she covers Keeneland's Spring and Fall meets for TVG. In 2011 she released the book, "Inside Track: Inside Guide to Horse Racing".