Teresa Pompey Birthdate: March 11, 1961 Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Residence: Neptune, N.J. Family: son, Chance.

2006 Gulfstream Record

Career:

• Established in South Florida and New Jersey after “finally being accepted in what is primarily a man’s game."
• Had a breakout year in 2002 with stable earnings of over $1 million … Won the first two graded stakes of her career that year, the Matchmaker
• Handicap and Eatontown Handicap, with Clearly a Queen … Trained that filly and many others for the late John Franks, a four-time Eclipse Award winning breeder/owner.
• Third-place finish in Monmouth Park’s 2002 trainer’s standings was highest ever for a female.
• Topped that at Meadowlands in 2003 where she tied for second (with Linda Race) in trainer’s standings.
  

Other: Grew up in Saratoga and recalls being “obsessed with horses" … Started galloping at Saratoga in 1976 and was an assistant to trainer Ron Taylor from 1989 through 1995 … Took out license in 1995 and scored first win that year with Jet Lightning at Monmouth … Graduate of Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y.