Hayley Turner has introduced her retirement from the saddle with rapid impact.
The 42-year-old grew to become the primary feminine jockey to experience a Group One winner outright in Britain when partnering Dream Forward to victory within the July Cup in 2011, following up with one other top-level success aboard Margot Did within the Nunthorpe Stakes at York the next month.
Turner, who rode Spirit Of Jura to win at Southwell on Wednesday, additionally mentioned she is anticipating her first youngster in October.
In a press release, Turner mentioned: “I have decided to retire from being a jockey following my winner at Southwell, especially as I had my first ride at the racecourse on March 27, 2000.
“I’m very excited to additionally announce that I’m having a child in October, all being nicely, which I’ve been planning for the final two years. My household and I are all very excited.
“I wish to thank everybody that has supported me over time particularly Michael Bell, David Simcock, Andrew Balding and Harry Eustace. I’d additionally wish to thank my using agent, Man Jewell, who has been my agent for almost all of my profession.
“I am looking forward to my next life chapter, but will be focusing on the baby in the short term.”
Turner was a trailblazer for feminine riders on the Flat, along with her accolades together with turning into the primary girl to experience 100 winners in a calendar 12 months in 2008 and the primary European girl to experience 1,000 worldwide winners in November 2023. She accomplished her 1,000th British success final July.
The rider has definitely loved many ups however there have additionally been some downs throughout her profession, notably struggling critical head accidents in a Newmarket gallops fall in March 2009 and harm to her pelvis and vertebrae following a fall at Doncaster in 2013.
Turner initially retired from the weighing room on the finish of 2015 to embark on a media profession, however she returned to the saddle to experience at her favorite Shergar Cup assembly in 2016 earlier than later opting to renew her profession in France, the place feminine riders had been provided a weight benefit.
She finally returned to Britain and loved her finest 12 months subsequently when using 48 winners in 2021, with the Eustace-trained Docklands her star experience in latest seasons, profitable the 2023 Britannia Stakes at Royal Ascot and taking second behind Charyn within the Queen Anne final time period.
Turner and Bell loved a prolonged partnership, highlighted by Margot Did, and the Newmarket handler hailed her capability within the saddle, in addition to her dedication to make her using mark.
Turner received the Nunthorpe Stakes aboard Margot Did in 2011
He mentioned: “It makes me very happy to hear her great news and she’s such a lovely, kind, loving person and I’m delighted for her that she’s going to be a mummy.
“We return a great distance and achieved quite a bit collectively and I am thrilled she’s received out on her personal phrases with some very blissful private information.
“We’ve had some great days together, Margot Did winning the Nunthorpe being one of them. But I just remember her riding as a 7lb apprentice when she had barely had a winner and going up against senior jockeys and big names in a finish, and I can’t remember if she won or not, but I always remember thinking ‘my god, you can ride’.
“She was all the time on time and all the time sensible and simply an excellent function mannequin for anybody, no matter intercourse, who wished to hit it off as a jockey.
“A lot of thanks go to my owners who backed my decision to support her and she held the job down very well and obviously she got derailed by a few nasty tumbles, but it doesn’t take away the six, seven, eight great years we had together.”
Turner additionally struck up a fruitful relationship with Simcock, encompassing Group One glory with not solely Dream Forward but additionally I am A Dreamer, who gave the pair a notable verdict when lifting the Beverly D. Stakes at Arlington Park in 2012.
Simcock mentioned: “Working with Hayley has been a great pleasure, she’s a proper professional and she’s a great rider who is good at her job and never let me down, but most importantly she’s just a really nice person.
“I am delighted for her and he or she retires with nothing to show, she’s accomplished every thing she will do and now it is on to the following step of getting a household.
“We were lucky enough to have some brilliant days, Dream Ahead being one and I’m A Dreamer the other, but just working with her day-in, day-out and enjoying those other winners together that are just as important has been great as well.”
