The Hollie Doyle fact-file
A double on Champions Day 2020 at Ascot crowned a remarkable season for Hollie Doyle – we track her career since her first ride under rules in 2013 in the Hollie Doyle Fact-File
- Age 24
2013
- Sat her GCSEs and joined David Evans’ yard in Pandy, Monmouthshire
- May – first ride under rules as an amateur jockey at Salisbury, winning by half a length
- Rode trackwork in Santa Anita, California
2014
- Became an apprentice jockey at Richard Hannon’s Herridge Racing Stables, in Marlborough, Wiltshire
2016
Big race wins
- Godolphin Flying Start Old Rowley Cup (Heritage Handicap)
2017
- August – rode her first winner in a Listed race when Billesdon Bess won the Upavon Fillies’ Stakes at Salisbury
- November – rode out her claim
Big race wins
- British Stallion Studs EBF Upavon Fillies’ Stakes (Listed Race)
2018
- June – suffered facial injured and lost several teeth when unseated in a race at Haydock – she was back race-riding 10 days later
Big race wins
- Prix Zeddaan (Listed Race) (2yo) (Straight Course)
2019
- Set a new record for winners ridden in a British season by a female jockey with 116 victories, overtaking Josephine Gordon’s record set in 2017
- December – named lady jockey of the year award at the Professional Jockeys Association’s Lesters Awards
Big race wins
- Ric And Mary Hambro Aphrodite Fillies’ Stakes (Listed Race)
- Prix Hampton (Listed Race)
- Betway Hever Sprint Stakes (Listed Race)
2020
- June – first win at Royal Ascot when she steered 33/1 chance Scarlet Dragon to victory in the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
- July – rode her first Group race winner when Dame Malliot took the Princess of Wales’s Stakes on Newmarket’s July Course
- July – appointed retained jockey for owner Imad Al Sagar
- August – won the Rose of Lancaster Stakes, her second Group win, on Extra Elusive for her new retainer
- August – became the first female jockey to ride five winners on the same card, at Windsor
- August – received 88% of the vote to be named August Jockey of the Month
- October – rode her 117th winner of the season, breaking her own record set the previous year
- October – rode the winner of Ascot’s Champions Day Long Distance Cup on Trueshan to become the first female jockey to ride a winner at the meeting
- October – rode the second of her two winners on Champions Day when Glen Shiel won the Champions Sprint, making it her first Group 1 victory
Big race wins
- Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes (Group 1) (British Champions Series2
- Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 2) (British Champions Series)
- EBF Stallions John Musker Fillies’ Stakes (Listed Race)
- Gallagher Group Winter Hill Stakes (Group 3)
- Gallagher Group August Stakes (Listed Race) Le Don De Vie
- Sky Bet And Symphony Group Strensall Stakes (Group 3)
- Prix Club Hipico Santiago – Prix Moonlight Cloud (Listed Race)
- BetVictor Rose Of Lancaster Stakes (Group 3)
- Princess Of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes (Group 2)
Stats (17 October 2020)
Al-time record
- 3,081 rides, 388 wins (13% strike-rate), prize-money £4,412,123
2020 record
- 798 rides, 120 wins (15% strike-rate), prize-money £1,647,643
- 562 horses ridden, 98 winners
- 162 trainers ridden for, winning rides for 48 trainers
- Trainer most ridden for: Archie Watson – 67 rides
- Trainer most winners for: Archie Watson – 34 wins
See also
♦ The Enable story http://wp.me/p8e3Dl-57M