Years ago, spending time on the backstretch was far less acceptable for the fairer sex than it is today. But in the 1950s, young Betty Schneider – better known as Raven – didn't care. Cleverly disguised in her grandfather's wardrobe, the teenager fit right in at her local Nova Scotia track... until it was discovered that this ­­hard-working young lad was not, in fact, a lad at all. By Melissa Keith