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NZ Herald
2 days ago
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Kiwi jockey James McDonald heads to Royal Ascot with US star
James McDonald, riding Nature Strip, wins the King's Stand Stakes at Ascot Racecourse in 2022. Photo / Supplied The world's best jockey is off to the world's best race meeting after all. And Kiwi riding sensation James McDonald has a new superstar to lure him all the way to England for Royal Ascot in a fortnight. McDonald was crowned Longines World's Best Jockey for 2024 in Hong Kong
Yahoo
12-05-2025
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Herefordshire's Hollie Doyle adds another record to tally
HEREFORDSHIRE born jockey Hollie Doyle became the winning-most female jockey in Britain following her 1,023rd victory on Brindavan at Ascot races on Saturday. Doyle, 28, passed 100 winners for the first time in 2019 and she had reached the 1,000 domestic winner mark back in March. Since reaching 100 winners for the first time, Doyle has passed that mark in each subsequent year, with a personal-best tally of 172 being set in the 2021 season. Doyle made her breakthrough at Group 1 level in 2020, the same year she was appointed as retained rider for Kuwaiti owner-breeder Imad Alsagar, when she rode Glen Shiel to victory in the British Champions Sprint. Her other big-race victories to date include three Group 1s on Nashwa, headed by a Classic victory in the 2022 French Prix de Diane, and two Royal Ascot successes on Bradsell in the 2023 King's Stand Stakes and the 2022 Coventry Stakes. Doyle said: "It's a nice milestone to reach and I'm really grateful to all the females before me. "I try to keep my head down and keep things moving forward the whole time. I've no room for slackening off the pace. You have to be really resilient in this sport and everyone has to work hard. You have no choice but to. I'm not an exception." When asked for a career highlight, she added: "My first Classic on Nashwa. That was pretty amazing. I've had some big days, but the first Classic is always a big one.' Alongside her domestic race-riding achievements, Doyle made history when she became the first female jockey to win a leg of the prestigious Hong Kong International Jockeys' Challenge in 2020 and the first female rider to be given a short-term riding contract by the Japan Racing Association in 2022.
