Hayley Turner has introduced her retirement from the saddle with speedy impact.
The 42-year-old grew to become the primary feminine jockey to trip 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 an announcement, Turner mentioned: “I’ve determined to retire from being a jockey following my winner at Southwell, particularly as I had my first trip on the racecourse on March 27, 2000.
“I’m very excited to additionally announce that I’m having a child in October, all being effectively, 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 prefer to thank my using agent, Man Jewell, who has been my agent for almost all of my profession.
“I’m trying ahead to my subsequent life chapter, however can be specializing in the child within the brief time period.”
Turner was a trailblazer for feminine riders on the Flat, along with her accolades together with turning into the primary lady to trip 100 winners in a calendar yr in 2008 and the primary European lady to trip 1,000 worldwide winners in November 2023. She accomplished her 1,000th British success final July.
The rider has actually 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 injury 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 trip at her favorite Shergar Cup assembly in 2016 earlier than later opting to renew her profession in France, the place feminine riders have been supplied a weight benefit.
She finally returned to Britain and loved her greatest yr subsequently when using 48 winners in 2021, with the Eustace-trained Docklands her star trip in current seasons, successful 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 willpower to make her using mark.
Turner gained the Nunthorpe Stakes aboard Margot Did in 2011
He mentioned: “It makes me very joyful to listen to her nice information and she or he’s such a beautiful, variety, loving particular person and I am delighted for her that she’s going to be a mummy.
“We return a good distance and achieved loads collectively and I am thrilled she’s received out on her personal phrases with some very joyful private information.
“We have had some nice days collectively, Margot Did successful the Nunthorpe being considered one of them. However I simply keep in mind her using as a 7lb apprentice when she had barely had a winner and going up towards senior jockeys and massive names in a end, and I can not keep in mind if she gained or not, however I at all times keep in mind pondering ‘my god, you may trip’.
“She was at all times on time and at all times good and simply an excellent function mannequin for anybody, no matter intercourse, who wished to take to each other as a jockey.
“Loads of thanks go to my homeowners who backed my choice to assist her and she or he held the job down very effectively and clearly she received derailed by just a few nasty tumbles, however it would not take away the six, seven, eight nice years we had collectively.”
Turner additionally struck up a fruitful relationship with Simcock, encompassing Group One glory with not solely Dream Forward but in addition 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 an amazing pleasure, she’s a correct skilled and she or he’s an amazing rider who is nice at her job and by no means let me down, however most significantly she’s only a very nice particular person.
“I am delighted for her and she or he retires with nothing to show, she’s accomplished every little thing she will do and now it is on to the subsequent step of getting a household.
“We have been fortunate sufficient to have some good days, Dream Forward being one and I am A Dreamer the opposite, however simply working along with her day-in, day-out and having fun with these different winners collectively which are simply as vital has been nice as effectively.”
