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Paula Herber's career was by all accounts just like her "short but sweet". Still in high school she would spend her 1970 summer vacation at the race track. The sixteen year old native of Fairmont, Oklahoma would accompany her father and his ten horse stable to Ellis Park, in Henderson, Kentucky. Here, on August fourth she would be the first female to ride there, she finished off the board, but success would soon come.
A few weeks later she would break her maiden aboard Sporty Mon, on August 24th. After Ellis Park she would move her tack to the old Latonia track currently known as Turfway Park. Here she would grab another riding double, first female rider and winner. In 1971 she would start out at Oaklawn Park before migrating east.
In the spring of 1971, Paula Hebner found herself in picturesque, Canandaigua, New York in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, riding at no less Finger Lakes Race Track. While at Finger Lakes she made a very important trip home, to attend her high school graduation. She would return to Finger Lakes and finish out the meet. Over the July Fourth holiday that year, Herber and Man Sam shipped into Green Mountain Park, in Vermont and scored an upset victory in the Kiwi Purse. Hebner would finish out the Finger Lakes meet, finishing second amongst females with thirteen wins. It looks like she may have ended the year at Fairmount Park and was at Beulah Park in 72. The stats end for Paula Herber, but not the story.
At the end of the 1971, Finger Lakes meet Herber, married fellow jockey Danny Rosier, who she met earlier in the season. In 1972 she gave birth to a daughter and took a year 1973 off. She returned to ride with her husband in 1974, in New Mexico. They rode mainly at Sunland Park, but also raced at La Mesa a now defunct track in Raton, New Mexico. Paula Rosier retired after the 75 season, her husband also retired soon after.
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