When MacKenzie Miller was a young man, he made a gallant effort to follow a “traditional” career path, one encouraged by his father. He started college, but didn’t graduate. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, but didn’t make a career of the military.

Instead, “Mack” Miller followed his passion and turned to training Thoroughbred racehorses. When he retired on his own terms in 1995, no one could deny that he had chosen the right path.

Long before Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra made it fashionable to bully the boys, there was a filly in the 1940s who was a four-legged feminist movement.

Gallorette, like most horses of her era, enjoyed a busy life on the racetrack. Tall and powerful, she raced 72 times in five seasons, winning 21 times and finishing second 20 times in a career that spanned 1944-48.