Background
Born in Enfield, Middlesex in South East England, Sally Bailie grew up on a farm where she learned to ride horses.
Born in Enfield, Middlesex in South East England, Sally Bailie grew up on a farm where she learned to ride horses.
After working with racehorses in England, in 1965 she moved to the United States and settled in the New York City area where she worked as an assistant trainer. The gelding went on to provide Bailie with some of the most important wins of her career and retired with two Grade 1 wins and earnings in excess of $1.4 million. Bailie was voted trainer of the year for New York-bred horses in 1983 and 1984 and in 1985 became the first woman trainer to have a horse compete in the Japan Cup.
Sally Bailie died of cancer at age fifty-eight at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, New York, on Long Island.