Hollie Doyle is first woman in British racing to ride five winners in a day

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Hollie Doyle continued her record-breaking progress on Saturday, becoming the first woman in the history of British racing to ride five winners in a day. The feat, verified by the Racing Post’s historian John Randall, was achieved at Windsor where the 23-year-old jockey scored on five of her seven mounts at cumulative odds of 899-1.

“I thought it’d go one way or the other,” said a delighted Doyle, whose 116 winners in 2019 smashed the previous record for a woman in a calendar year. “I thought, this could be a good day or a really bad day.

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Written by Chris Cook
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