In short, the two female jockeys who have ridden 1,000 winners in Europe are Hayley Turner and Hollie Doyle. Turner became the first to do so, when, on November 21, 2023, when she rode 9/4 favourite Tradesman, trained by David Simcock, to comfortable, 1¾-length win in the Illuminate Christmas Ball Handicap, over two miles, at Chelmsford. The victory was fitting insofar that the winner was owned by Khalifa Dasmal, who also provided Turner with the first of her two Group 1 winners, Dream Ahead, also trained by Simcock, in the July Cup at Newmarket on July 9, 2011. Reflecting on reaching the career landmark, Turner, 41, said, “I’m chuffed and relieved. Although it’s taken me 20 years to do it, it will probably take the girls behind me half the time.”
She was nearly right, too, because Hollie Doyle brought up 1,000 career winners on Leyhaimur, coincidentally also trained by David Simcock, in a nursery handicap at Goodwood on September 3, 2024. That success came exactly 11 years, 3 months, 29 days after her first, on The Mongoose, trained by David Evans, in a lady amateur riders’ handicap at Salisbury on May 5, 2013. Doyle, 27, has been making headlines for most of her career and broke the record for the number of winners ridden by a female jockey three years running in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Currently with nine Group 1 winners to her name, she said, “Never when I started off my career did I imagine I would ride this many winners. Now all I can think about is the next thousand.”
