See Video: Leading Female Jockeys Take Part In Black-Eyed Susan Day

See Video: Leading Female Jockeys Take Part In Black-Eyed Susan Day

Maryland's News Now Co-Hosts John Patti and Mary Beth Marsden got the chance to speak with the leading female jockeys during the Black-Eyed Susan Day festivities Friday. (Photo taken by WBAL's Ashley Michelle Williams)

Two historical women are taking part in one of Baltimore's most renowned events this weekend.

The first woman jockey to win a horse race at an American thoroughbred track, Barbara Jo Rubin, will be competing in her fourth Lady Legends for the Cure Race at Pimlico Race Course as part of the Black-Eyed Susan Day festivities.

The race, which the first of its kind to feature retired female riders, was created to raise money for the MarylandA MAJOR crackdown on MS-13 in the US has confirmed the violent drug gang’s tentacles have infiltrated Australia.

New York’s Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced 17 alleged members and associates of MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha, have been indicted by a grand jury in the US on murder, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking charges.

The gang is made up of machete-wielding “cliques”, with members reporting back to leaders in the central American nation of El Salvador.

The investigation began in May, 2017, and US authorities were surprised to discover the gang’s international reach.

“We uncovered a structured network of MS-13 operations in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Texas, from within a Mississippi prison cell, and in countries around the globe including Mexico, Colombia, Korea, France, Australia, Peru, Egypt,