Chantal Sutherland (born February 23, 1976, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian model, television personality and jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

[2] She is known for her appearances on the reality tv show, Jockeys on Animal Planet, as well as being the poster girl for the Del Mar racetrack.

[3] During an interview on Sky Sports in the lead-up to the Dubai World Cup race, she said that her primary vocation was jockey.

Sutherland grew up in the Toronto, Ontario area where her father Hugh owned a horse farm and trained standardbreds.

As a young girl, she played competitive field hockey and was invited to try out for Canada's junior World Cup team.

She rode horses in equestrian events but after graduating from York University with a degree in communications and psychology, she decided to explore the opportunity to ride Thoroughbreds in flat racing.

She participated in the second annual Colombian Emeralds International Jockey Challenge on New Year's Day 2005 in Barbados, guided Maeve ($11.80) to victory in the first race, leading a 'Woodbine' sweep, as Jono Jones (Band Dancer) and Patrick Husbands (Blazing Colours) finished second and third, respectively.

In 2005, she went to race in Florida and New York, where jockeys Ángel Cordero Jr., Shane Sellers and Edgar Prado helped her hone her skills.

"[6] Allen Gutterman, Santa Anita racetrack's head of marketing, said Sutherland "could become the best female jockey since Julie Krone.

In March 2011 Sutherland rode Game On Dude in the Santa Anita Handicap and won by a nose in a victory that was as controversial as it was historic.

[10] In July 2012, once again on board Game On Dude, Sutherland became the first woman jockey to win the Hollywood Gold Cup.

On May 6, 2017, aboard Giro Candito in the third race at Santa Anita, Sutherland joined Emma-Jayne Wilson and Francine Villeneuve as the only Canadian-born women jockeys to reach the 1,000 wins plateau.

She holds a pilot's license and has lent her time and efforts to several marketing and community endeavors at various racetracks throughout North America.

Sutherland appeared in five episodes of the television series Luck, which began airing in North America on HBO in February 2012, portraying the character Lizzy.