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At a glance

The story line: Jessica Patterson and more than two dozen other pro women riders will race Saturday at Spring Creek MX Park in the 2010 Lucas Oil AMA National Championship series.

Also: Women have had a pro motocross racing league of their own since 1996. This will be the first pro women’s race at Spring Creek since 2003.

MILLVILLE — Years ago when she was just getting started racing motorcycles, Jessica Patterson ran into some resistance along with all the other obstacles that a motocross track presents.

“I guess you could say there was some (male chauvinism),” she recalled. “When I was growing up and racing against all the boys, they didn’t always accept it too well, getting beat by a girl.

“For me it was cool, because that just made it more fun.”

Times have attitudes have changed, and Patterson, the most successful female professional racer of all time, has likely had something to do with that.

Women have had a pro motocross racing league of their own since 1996, and now the 26-year-old Patterson is the most recognized and respected rider in the WMX, formerly known as the Women’s Motocross Association (WMA).

Patterson and more than two dozen other pro women riders will race Saturday at Spring Creek MX Park in the 2010 Lucas Oil AMA National Championship series. For the women it’s round five of their eight-race series.

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