Hodsdon joins NSA’s ‘century club’
With her victory aboard Mrs. Calvin Houghland’s Nationbuilder in the $50,000 Queen’s Cup MPC Chase on April 24, Danielle Hodsdon joined the elite century club of jockeys who have won 100 or more National Steeplechase Association-sanctioned races. Hodsdon, 33, is the 36th steeplechase jockey to reach that milestone.
Hodsdon, who notched her first victory a decade ago aboard Sultry Gate at Foxfield in Virginia, was the National Steeplechase Association’s champion jockey in 2006 and the leading earner last year, when she was the regular rider of Eclipse Award winner Mixed Up.
Riding principally for Racing Hall of Fame member Jonathan Sheppard, who trains both Nationbuilder and Mixed Up, Hodsdon has five wins in the current season through May 1, second to 2009 champion jockey Paddy Young, and she also ranks second to Young by earnings.
