Hayley Turner

Hayley Turner, born on 3 January 1983 and raised near Nottingham, is a retired English flat racing jockey who was based in Newmarket for much of her career. She was apprenticed to Michael Bell, shared the champion apprentice title in 2005, and in 2008 became the first woman to ride 100 flat winners in a British calendar year. Her Group 1 wins include Dream Ahead in the 2011 July Cup and Margot Did in the Nunthorpe Stakes, and in 2012 she became the first UK-based woman to win an international Grade 1, the Beverly D. Stakes. She has won four races at Royal Ascot, rode in the Epsom Derby, was made an OBE in 2016, worked as a broadcaster, reached 1,000 British winners in July 2024 and retired in April 2025.