- You gotta give the horse credit...
With every passing season, Hollie Doyle just seems to be getting better and better. From becoming just the third female jockey to ride 100 winners in 2019, joining Hayley Turner and Josephine Gordon in the history books, to making a name for herself as one of the best jockeys in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Doyle rarely fails to impress as she continues to send records tumbling.
That has been the case again so far this season, with landmark victories a regular occurrence for the 25-year-old — not just on home soil, but around the world as well with major triumphs in the Middle East, Germany and France this year. So, with the sky appearing to be the limit for Doyle and those looking for horse racing bets always keen to back her, let’s take a look back at her season thus far in numbers.
107 – How many winners she has ridden in the 2022 British flat campaign at the time of writing. Doyle became the first jockey to reach the century mark in domestic racing this season when she guided Society Lion to success in a six-furlong handicap at Wolverhampton earlier this month.
2 – Her position in the current Flat Jockeys Championship standings, which is decided from the Guineas Festival at Newmarket in late April until Champions Day at Ascot in October. Doyle is second to William Buick (82 wins) in the table with 51 winners recorded in the horse racing results, three more than Ben Curtis and four more than her husband Tom Marquand.
1 – Last month, Doyle became the first female rider to win a European Group 1 Classic, riding Nashwa to glory in the Prix de Diane (France’s equivalent of the Oaks) at Chantilly for John and Thady Gosden. Just a shortneck was the difference between the favoured three-year-old and 22/1 rank outsider La Parisienne at the finish.
3 – Doyle took her overall career Royal Ascot tally to three in June with a victory aboard Bradsell in the Coventry Stakes. The 8/1 shot, trained by Archie Watson, kept on well in the closing stages of the Group 2 6f contest to beat Persian Force by a length and a half.
19 – Upwards of many pounds top weight Trueshan had to give to the rest of the field ahead of the Northumberland Plate at Newcastle last month as he and Doyle put on a remarkable display to win the Group 1 race from 3/1 after he missed out on the Ascot Gold Cup due to unsuitable ground.
661 – How many rides Doyle has had in Great Britain since the start of the year, adding 105 seconds, 88 thirds and 83 fourth place finishes to her impressive 107 winners — giving her an overall strike rate of 16% for the season.
926,505 – Doyle’s winnings for the season are edging ever closer to the £1 million mark, as she has currently racked a total of £926,505. Her total earnings currently stand at a whopping £1,629.145 for the campaign.
4 – The number of Group winners the 25-year-old has had so far this season. Her first Group 1 victory of the year was aboard Outbox in the Amir Trophy in Doha and she has followed that up with the aforementioned win in the Coventry Stakes and Northumberland Plate. Her most recent Group triumph was with Well Disposed in the Group 3 Mehl Mulhens-Trophy in Hamburg earlier this month.