Hollie Doyle

Hollie Doyle (born 11 October 1996) is a British flat racing jockey who has set a series of records for women riders in Britain and Europe. She grew up in a racing family in Herefordshire, rode her first pony race at nine and had her first ride under rules as an amateur in 2013, then joined the yards of David Evans and Richard Hannon as an apprentice. In 2019 she rode 116 winners, a record for a woman in a British year, and in 2020 she became stable jockey for trainer Archie Watson and rode her first Group 1 winner, Glen Shiel in the Champions Sprint at Ascot. In June 2022 she became the first woman to win a European Group 1 Classic when Nashwa took the Prix de Diane at Chantilly, and she finished joint second in the 2022 flat jockeys championship. She rode her 1,000th winner in September 2024 and became Britain's winningest female jockey in 2025. She was third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award in 2020.