First Woman outright winner of a Group One race
February 2015, Newmarket Racecourse, Suffolk
b.1983, Nottingham
Hayley Turner OBE is Britain’s most successful female jockey as the first woman to ever win a Group 1 race outright. In the 18 years since her debut season in 2000, the former Champion Apprentice has become the first woman to ever ride 100 winners and has now gone on to win over 760 flat races. In 2016 Hayley was awarded an OBE for services to horse racing. To this day, Hayley continues to ride and win races across the UK.