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- "I just think racing was stuck in the dark ages." So says Hollie Doyle, the 5ft 'pocket rocket' helping lead the charge as women seek to establish their place at the sport's top table. The 23-year-old set a new benchmark when clocking up her 107th victory of 2019 at Southwell - the most British winners in a year for a woman.
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Sep 3, 2024 · Hollie Doyle has reached 1,000 career winners and is closing in on Hayley Turner as the British female jockey with the most winners; Doyle has celebrated some huge winners at Royal Ascot as...
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.
- Rachael Blackmore
- Hollie Doyle
- Bryony Frost
- Joanna Mason
- Lilly Pinchin
- Hayley Turner
- Saffie Osborne
- Alice Stevens
Since riding her first winner in February 2011, Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore has gone from strength-to-strength. She has established herself as one of the best in the Irish weighing room and has formed a particularly deadly partnership with Henry de Bromhead in recent years. The duo combined for Blackmore’s first Cheltenham winner in 2019 when A ...
Hollie Doyle is rewriting the flat racing history books and taking her code by storm. She is the first female jockey to ride five consecutive winners on a card and, in 2021, broke her own record of British winners ridden in a year for the second time; 2020 saw 150 winners, whereas the following year brought 172. Big race wins across the globe follo...
The 2019 Jump Jockey of the Year has enjoyed a memorable rise to fame and has become one of the most well-regarded jockeys in the British weighing room. Perhaps Bryony Frost’s most well-known success came at the 2019 Cheltenham where she claimed a landmark victory aboard Frodon in the Ryanair Chase. It came after the 26-year-old sustained a terribl...
Previously one of the UK’s top amateur jockeys for 14 seasons, Joanna Mason rode her first winner as an apprentice in 2020. The following year saw her ride 44 winners at a 12% strike rate and got her first century, putting her among the best Flat jockeys in the north of England. Another personal best, Mason added 46 winners to the tally last year a...
Tipped as ‘the next big thing’ by Ruby Walsh, Lilly Pinchin’s career in the saddle started on ponies. She started riding in pony races and eventually graduated to Point-to-Points. Her first win under rules came in 2017 for Fergal O’Brien, and her tally of winners now stands at 75. Now riding principally for Charlie Longsdon, who rates her very high...
Hayley Turner is considered to be the first female jockey to have sustained a day-in, day-out successful career as a jockey at the highest level. She became the first female to ride 100 Flat winners in a calendar year, during a period where she rode in over 900 races, and has recently become the first female jockey to reach 1000 winners. Her major ...
Very successful in the eventing sphere before becoming an apprentice jockey, Saffie Osborne’s career in the saddle has gone from strength to strength, despite encountering some nasty injuries along the way which kept her on the sidelines for some time. She has now ridden over 150 winners in the UK alone, but has also ridden in numerous races in Eur...
Having started as an amateur, Alice Stevens is currently a conditional jockey based with Henry Daly who has ridden a total of 23 winners for numerous trainers, also including Olly Murphy and Harry Derham. Having won just shy of £200,000 in prize money and getting more rides season upon season, Alice Stevens in certainly a jockey on the up.
Dec 9, 2019 · The 23-year-old set a new benchmark when clocking up her 107th victory of 2019 at Southwell - the most British winners in a year for a woman. That put her in the top 10 for all British flat...
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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.
Nov 22, 2023 · Hayley Turner says she is proud to be a trailblazer for other female jockeys after riding her landmark 1,000th winner at Chelmsford on Tuesday.
Oct 14, 2020 · Hollie Doyle broke her own record for most victories in a calendar year by a female jockey in Britain at Kempton on Wednesday. Doyle struck aboard State Occasion in the mile nursery to take her seasonal tally to 117 winners, passing the 116 she rode last year.
