Prime Flat jockey Hayley Turner has introduced her retirement from the saddle with instant impact and is anticipating a child, due in October.
“I’ve determined to retire from being a jockey following my winner at Southwell final week, particularly as I had my first experience on the racecourse on 27 March 2000,” stated Hayley, 42. “I’m very excited to additionally announce that I’m having a child in October, all being nicely, which I’ve been planning for the final two years. My household and I are all very excited.”
Hayley has loved large success as a jockey, driving 1,022 winners and topped champion woman jockey 11 occasions. She additionally turned the primary feminine jockey to win a Group 1 outright in Britain when partnering Dream Forward to victory within the July Cup at Newmarket in 2011, and went on to win the Nunthorpe Stakes with Margot Did at York a month later. The final of her three Group One successes got here with I’m A Dreamer within the 2013 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park in Chicago. She additionally turned the primary feminine jockey to document a Royal Ascot winner in 32 years when she rode 33/1 shot Thanks Be to victory within the Sandringham Stakes in 2019.
Hayley turned the primary girl to accomplice 100 Flat winners in Britain in a single calendar yr, and though she first retired from the saddle in 2015 to pursue a profession within the media, she returned two years later. In 2016, she was introduced together with her OBE for providers to horseracing by The Queen.
Hayley has ridden for a few of the most revered trainers in Flat racing and he or she was eager to thank them upon asserting her retirement.
“I wish to thank everybody that has supported me through the years, particularly Michael Bell, David Simcock, Andrew Balding and Harry Eustace. I’d additionally prefer to thank my driving agent, Man Jewell, who has been my agent for almost all of my profession,” she stated.
“I’m trying ahead to my subsequent life chapter however will probably be specializing in the child within the quick time period.”
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Gemma is an skilled journalist, having been a part of the H&H crew since 2014, who’s obsessed with all equestrian sports activities, together with racing and point-to-pointing. She has loved driving out for prime trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took half in a charity Flat race at Epsom in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting skills have taken her to quite a few five-star occasions round Britain and Europe, in addition to European championships.
