Hayley Turner

Hayley Turner OBE (born 3 January 1983) is a retired English professional jockey with 765 career wins.

Turner is widely considered to be the first woman to achieve a sustained, day-in, day-out, successful career as a professional jockey in the UK. Hayley Turner's success has seen an enormous increase in the number of female apprentice jockeys riding in the UK in the second decade of the 21st century.

She became the first women to ride 100 UK Flat race winners during a calendar year, when winning on 'Mullitovermaurice' at Wolverhampton on 30 December 2008. In that year Turner rode in over 900 races in the UK - one of only five riders to achieve the milestone that year.

On 31 August 2015 Turner announced that she would retire from riding at the end of the season. Among many plans she will join the horse racing broadcaster At The Races.

In 2016, it was announced that she will be a regular contributor to the new ITV Racing team when their 4-year deal as the new terrestrial home of British horse racing comes into effect on 1 January 2017.

Turner grew up in north Nottinghamshire. Her first ride in public was on Markellis at Southwell on 27 March 2000. Her first winning ride was on Generate at Pontefract on 4 June 2000. She rode her first Group winner on Lady Deauville in the Lando-Trophy in Germany on 16 November 2008.

Turner has ridden winners for a great deal of trainers but is best known for her ongoing and successful association with Newmarket based Derby winning trainer Michael Bell, with whom she was apprenticed in 2005 when winning the Champion Apprentice title. She was joint Champion Apprentice with Saleem Golam with 44 winners in 2005. Since then she has silenced the doubters by bucking the trend of champion apprentices subsequently struggling with their careers by going from success to success. She was voted as Channel 4's Racing Personality for 2008.

High-profile handicap wins in 2008 on Furnace at Chester and Ascot raised Turner into the higher echelons of the weighing room, as did wins on The Betchworth Kid.

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