{"id":23071,"date":"2026-05-05T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2026-05-05T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:53:48","slug":"the-sports-world-is-in-absolute-chaos-after-a-staggering-history-making-moment-a-young-woman-who-was-once-buried-in-pre-med-textbooks-and-terrified-of-organic-chem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=23071","title":{"rendered":"The sports world is in absolute chaos after a \u201cstaggering\u201d history-making moment! A young woman who was once \u201cburied\u201d in pre-med textbooks and terrified of organic chemistry has just stunned the world in a \u201cbreathtaking\u201d career pivot that has left experts in total disbelief."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Horses aside, the Kentucky Derby is, at the end of the day, about betting.<\/p>\n<p>Cherie DeVaux is no stranger to it. In 2017, she bet on herself, changing careers from a premed track to pursue a life training horses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ReZxlK4u\"><ins id=\"982a9496-85d6a7e6206b02be7891460eab99b0be-2-1707\" class=\"982a9496\" data-key=\"85d6a7e6206b02be7891460eab99b0be\"><ins id=\"982a9496-85d6a7e6206b02be7891460eab99b0be-2-1707-1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>It all paid off Saturday in the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where her horse\u00a0Golden Tempo stormed to an improbable victory\u00a0to make her the first female trainer to win a Derby. The history of the moment wasn\u2019t lost on DeVaux, though to her it was about more than her gender.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRb1XHk5BKtFVWBxbfhQjw8HcemqyX8R22Z2w&amp;s\" alt=\"Cherie DeVaux makes history and becomes first female trainer of a Kentucky  Derby winner | The Independent\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 Horses aside, the Kentucky Derby is, at the end of the day, about betting. Cherie DeVaux is no stranger to it. In 2017, she&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23076,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/23076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}