Type: Visiting Jockey
Nationality: British
Background:
Age: 24. Hollie Doyle made a winning debut as a jockey, scoring at Salisbury in 2013 aboard The Mongoose. After completing high school, she joined the yard of David Evans in Wales, and during winter, would spend six weeks riding out at Santa Anita, California. In 2014, Doyle began her apprenticeship at the Wiltshire yard of four-time British champion trainer, Richard Hannon Sr., and she rode out her claim in November, 2017. In 2020, Doyle set a new record for the number of winners ridden in a single British Flat racing season by a female jockey with 116 victories, surpassing the previous figure (106) set by Josephine Gordon in 2017. She currently has 129 wins through 2020 (as at 18 November), a record for a female jockey during a calendar year. Among her record-breaking haul, was a single-day record for a female jockey with five wins at Windsor Racecourse on 29 August. Doyle also secured her first Group race victory in the G2 Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket aboard Dame Malliot, and her first Royal Ascot success came with 33/1 chance Scarlet Dragon in the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes. Her biggest success to date also came at Ascot in the G1 British Champions Sprint Stakes atop Glen Shiel, who gave her a British Champions Day double after Trueshan had powered clear of his rivals in the G2 British Champions Long Distance Cup. She is the retained rider of Classic-winning owner and breeder Imad Al Sagar.
Achievements:
First female jockey to ride five winners in one day (Windsor Racecourse, 29 August, 2020); Single season record for most winners ridden by a female jockey (116).