Tres Delaforce earned her first career victory as a trainer on Thursday when Kite Falcon, a 66.10-to-1 longshot ridden by Juan Molina Jr., won the eighth race at Turfway Park.

“I knew he had it in him,” Delaforce said. “He had some breathing problems—a lung infection that was hard to track down. It took a while to figure him out.”

Kite Falcon was the eighth starter for Delaforce, the daughter of a United States serviceman. Delaforce was born in Turkey and grew up in Germany, where she began galloping horses at a training farm at age 12.

“I grew up in between a dressage barn on one side and a racetrack on the other and sneaked off to the barns every chance I got,” Delaforce said.

Delaforce moved to the United States in 1990, and returned to working with horses six months after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law. She moved to Kentucky in 2004, and has had held a variety of equine-related jobs, including rubbing horses for trainers Paul McGee and Tom Amoss and retraining Thoroughbreds retired from racing.

Delaforce took out her trainer’s license in April 2006, and entered her first horses this year. She currently has two horses in training at a private farm near Louisville.