Imagine being told you couldn’t pursue your chosen career because of who you were married to.
Today, that would be unthinkable. But there’s a famously successful Australian woman who suffered that exact fate, and the story is brilliantly told in the latest ‘Short Black With Sandra Sully’ podcast, which you can listen to here.
This was about the 1990s, when Gai Waterhouse fought a bitter two-year legal battle for her license to train race horses.
It seems amazing that Gai had to fight so hard just to pursue her passion, because today, she’s a household name, who became the first female Australian trainer to win the Melbourne Cup (in 2013 with Fiorente).
