Kelly Rubley

Kelly Rubley was well into a career as a teacher before deciding on a new path and starting work as an exercise rider for Barclay Tagg in 2009. After serving as an assistant trainer for Tagg and for James Toner, she began her own training career in 2014. Rubley, based at Fair Hill in Maryland, won her first graded stakes in summer 2018 when veteran turf campaigner Divisidero took the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap.

Rubley campaigned her first horse on the Triple Crown trail a year later, when Alwaysmining emerged as a multiple stakes winner at Laurel Park and was entered in the Preakness Stakes.