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    Hollie Doyle

    Dec 17, 2020 6 minutes

    “SHE could easily be a champion jockey, why not?” said Frankie Dettori after Hollie Doyle landed five winners at one meeting at Windsor in August.

    Hollie has already finished as the highest-ever woman in the championship rankings – fourth, ahead of former treble champions Frankie himself, Silvestre de Sousa and Ryan Moore. That’s just one of the records Hollie has smashed this year. Fastest female to 50 wins in a season, most winners by a woman in a calendar year (117, beating her own record), first woman to land a five-timer – and now, a nomination for Sunday’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) award (20 December, #votehollie), alongside another record-breaking speed merchant, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton.

    A female champion jockey is now a realistic prospect – the first since records began in 1840.

    “It’s an honour for someone as prolific as Frankie to say that,” Hollie says. “I’d love to be champion, but

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