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      • Newly-crowned apprentice champion Amy Ryan believes it is just a matter of time before a female jockey wins a British Flat racing Classic. Ryan created her own piece of history on Saturday when she became the first woman to win the apprentice title outright.
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    In June 2022 she became the first female jockey to win a French Classic and the first female jockey to win a European Group 1 Classic when she rode Nashwa to victory in the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) at Chantilly. In 2022, she came joint second in the Flat Jockeys' Championship, the highest result for a woman to date.

  3. Oct 19, 2024 · The success marked the first winner for a female professional jockey in Britain, and Wiltshire has chosen to recount her remarkable story in No Place For A Girl, written in collaboration with Nick Townsend.

  4. Nov 12, 2012 · Newly-crowned apprentice champion Amy Ryan believes it is just a matter of time before a female jockey wins a British Flat racing Classic. Ryan created her own piece of history on Saturday...

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    • Meriel Tufnell: Scorched Earth. 1972 Kempton: Goya Stakes. Meriel Tufnell became the first female rider to partner a winner in Britain under the rules of racing.
    • Gay Kelleway: Sprowston Boy. 1987 Royal Ascot: Queen Alexandra Stakes. Now a successful trainer, Gay Kelleway first made headlines when partnering Sprowston Boy to glory in the Queen Alexandra Stakes in 1987.
    • Nina Carberry: Leading Run. 2006 Punchestown festival: Champion Bumper (Grade 1) Nina Carberry became the first female jumps jockey to win at the highest level in Britain or Ireland when partnering the 4-1 favourite Leading Run to victory in the Champion Bumper at the Punchestown festival for trainer Noel Meade.
    • Hayley Turner: Dream Ahead. 2011 Newmarket: July Cup (Group 1) Hayley Turner was shopping in Superdrug on the Thursday when she got the call up to replace William Buick on Dream Ahead in the 2011 July Cup.
  5. Jul 11, 2022 · Hollie Doyle became the first Flat jockey to reach 100 winners in Britain in 2022 when steering Society Lion to success in the 6f handicap at Wolverhampton on Monday evening. The Ed Dunlop-trained five-year-old had not won since August 2020 but the front-running tactics adopted by the Doyle paid off and helped the rider reach a century of ...

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  6. Nov 22, 2023 · Alex Greaves was a trailblazer for women jockeys on the Flat. She was first female apprentice to ride out her claim, the first woman to partner a Group One winner, and the first to ride in the Epsom Derby. Women were not allowed to race-ride professionally on the Flat until 1975.

  7. The champion jockey of flat racing in Great Britain is the rider who has the most wins during a season. For most of its existence, the jockeys championship was decided on the number of winners ridden between Lincoln Handicap Day and November Handicap Day, the traditional flat turf season.

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