Former Standardbred caretaker Korina McLean developed an affinity for horses when the Children’s Aid Society sponsored a program that allowed her and other teens like her, who were living in group homes, to take riding lessons.
Eventually Standardbreds became her life, but her desire to ride never left. In 2019 she took a job as a Thoroughbred exercise rider in the Kevin Attard Stable at Woodbine, but two years later disaster struck when a mount of hers flipped over one morning, injuring her badly.
After months of rehab and with a heart like a good racehorse, Korina was back in the saddle long before her doctors had predicted — just in time to become the exercise rider of the filly who would take Canada by storm for her Standardbred-owning connections when she became the fastest Queen’s Plate winner in history, and on Saturday (Nov. 5) takes on 11 rivals in the $2 million 2022 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Keeneland.
To read the feature on McLean from the October 2022 edition of TROT Magazine, click the following link: Korina & Moira: Two Wonderful Ladies With The Will To Win.