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She’s great i think.
Was watching her on the AW yesterday, she is a good jockey and gets the best from horses.
Well done to Hayley and let’s hope she has plenty more winners.
A great achievement.
Her sex should never be a factor or hopefully won’t be mentioned too much now, though it still will be, but for a young jockey still trying to establish themselves, this was a great achievement, especially as she has to work hard and rarely gets good mounts in big meetings. I have said before, there is more to winning horse races than brute strength so that can never be a reason used against females. Yes some horses take hard driving and plenty of races are won in the last 100m, but plenty of others need good jockeyship, great tactical brains and horsemanship wehich she has developed well. Not sure she should have been C4 Racing Personality of the year, but all the others put up have won it before or will win it again so good luck to her and let it be the first of many centuries.
Bloody good achievement for any jockey to be honest. Her being a girl is all the more amazing. She really has made it in a man’s world. Fair balls to her. Well done H.
Nice touch by Lingfield today to make a presentation to her. On ATR last night it was reported that Hill’s offering 2/1 for her to repeat the hundred in 2009. Chappers on ATR tried to locate David Hood to ascertain the odds for Kirsty M to reach 100 winners next year but not sure he was successful.
Seeing her on a Micheal Bell horse makes me bring my ears up, she is a good jockey and had too over the the sexisum in racing toowards women jockies.
Watching a video on bloodhorse.com about,Julie Krone, she was as strong and determined as any man in the saddle,even if she is a hobbit with a tiny voice, its deceptive as she made the men look like fools time and again.
Heres too Hayley winning a classic next year.
Seeing her on a Micheal Bell horse makes me bring my ears up, she is a good jockey and had too over the the sexisum in racing toowards women jockies.
Watching a video on bloodhorse.com about,Julie Krone, she was as strong and determined as any man in the saddle,even if she is a hobbit with a tiny voice, its deceptive as she made the men look like fools time and again.
Heres too Hayley winning a classic next year.
We’re far behind North America – remember the likes of Krone has ridden hundreds of winners and Wilson in Canada has won classic’s and been Champion Jockey at her track.
Even exiled Brit’s like Zoe Cadman did well in the US.
Lisa Jones was a bloody good jockey but once she lost her claim she dissapeared real shame rated her highly.
She has improved year on year though and is slowly getting better rides.
In the grand scheme of things she is not going to win the jockey’s title but she is a decent jockey and would carry my money.
firefox
You are a serious misery.
I’m not sure how many apprentices have gone on to record a 100 winners in a year total a short time after riding out their claim, but I would guess it isn’t many in recent times. I wouldn’t have to check whether H. Turner is male or female to know that the performance in 2008 was notable.
Rob
Hayley Turner has made history Firefox, its a good story, one that the general public can relate to. Thats not always the case when it comes to horseracing. This is a story more about something thats never been achieved before rather than an in-depth analysis of jockey ability and the media have it right on this occasion imo. You can always lay the hype in the new season.
For what its worth I think in the fullness of time Kirsty M will prove to be the most successful female jockey of the current generation, although thats not to take away from a superb achievement by Hayley Turner.
I’m sorry but for a jockey who rides the standard of horses she rides (which isn’t that high even for the Bell yard), she has done well and her strike rate was just over 10% last year which is not too bad for a mid ranking jockey (I remember Jimmy Quinn used to ride well over 1000 a year and rarely get the ton up). As I said before, her sex is not an issue for me and think some of the media and racing fans have gone overboard because she’s a woman.
If she was to win the Derby, for example, it’d be the singlemost signifiicant moment for UK racing since Frankie’s Magnificent Seven, even surpassing that I would expect.
She sometimes reminds me of Ryan Moore. She has that ability to stalk the leaders then produce it within the last. Perhaps not all the time as i obviously haven’t saw all of her races, but in the ones i have seen her win..
Compared with male jockeys her achievement may not be significant, however she is the first female in the UK to achieve this number of wins in a year.
Yes it may well be a contrived statistic to a certain extent. However it is giving racing some good publicity to a wider audience.
Bearing in mind most of the media outside of the RP is more than happy to concentrate on the bad aspects of our sport this is some welcome good news.
From my perspective, contrived or otherwise, anything that gives the sport good publicity to the "outside world" cannot or should not be mocked.
Lets face it Hayley Turners face across the papers will attract more newcomers to the sport than Ryan Moore’s miserable scowl.
It is certainly good for racing
and good for the listHas anyone checked over
the ton lady’s saddle ?Her hundred is good for
the mental and physical wellbeing of racing.
It is like a walk in open fields
or an uninterrupted view of a calm sea
or a bit of spice.Lets face it Hayley Turners face across the papers will attract more newcomers to the sport than Ryan Moore’s miserable scowl.
If I was an apparatchik at the BHA, or maybe someone like "Stoker" Hartington, I’d pay a breakfast visit to connections of a well fancied Derby runner and have a little natter about putting up a certain female jockey. I’d even discuss a financial inducement from the Levy.
Hayley winning the Derby would be a massive, massive boost to the sport and maybe the stimulus the sport needs to get the BBC back on board. She’s good enough now too.
The presence of the charisma-less Ryan Moore wouldn’t add any extra on the list at his own twenty first birthday party. God forbid he wins the Derby before he has a reality check about the importance of publicity and media.
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