33 Facts About Hayley Turner

Hayley Turner was born on 3 January 1983 and is a retired English jockey who competed in flat racing.

In 2008 Turner became the first woman to ride 100 UK flat race winners during a calendar year.

Hayley Turner went on to win eight Group races, including two Group 1 races and a Grade 1 race.

Hayley Turner retired from racing in 2015 and became a regular contributor to ITV Racing.

Hayley Turner came out of retirement in 2018 and since then has ridden four winners at Royal Ascot.

Hayley Turner rode her 1,000th winner in Great Britain in July 2024.

Hayley Turner was born two miles from Nottingham Racecourse in north Nottinghamshire, one of six daughters of Kate and Richard Hayley Turner.

Hayley Turner's mother was a riding instructor and she learnt to ride at an early age.

Hayley Turner later rode out for local trainer Mark Polglase and attended a course at the Northern Racing College before becoming apprenticed to Michael Bell at Newmarket, Suffolk.

Hayley Turner never finished the race, as the horse broke a leg and was euthanised.

Hayley Turner's first winning ride was her eighth, on Generate at Pontefract on 4 June 2000.

Hayley Turner spent the winter of 2004 riding out for Godolphin in Dubai.

In 2005 Hayley Turner was joint Champion Apprentice with Saleem Golam with 44 winners.

In 2008 Hayley Turner became the first female jockey to ride 100 winners in a calendar year in Britain, when Mullitovermaurice won at Wolverhampton on 30 December 2008.

Hayley Turner secured her first Group race winner on Lady Deauville in the Group 3 Lando-Trophy in Germany on 16 November 2008.

Hayley Turner was voted as Channel 4's Racing Personality for 2008.

In March 2009, Hayley Turner was badly injured in an accident on the Newmarket gallops.

The 2010 flat racing year continued to be successful for Hayley Turner; highlights included a first Group 1 ride on Barshiba in the Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood, having won the Group 2 Lancashire Oaks on the same horse at Haydock a month earlier; and a successful partnership with classy two-year-old Margot Did, which included two winners and second places in two Group 3 races and a Group 2.

In January 2011, Hayley Turner had her first race-rides at the Meydan racecourse in Dubai, as part of the annual Dubai Racing Carnival.

In July 2011 Hayley Turner rode her first Group 1 winner, Dream Ahead, in the July Cup at Newmarket.

Hayley Turner received the 'Most Inspirational Sportswoman' Award at the 2011 Jaguar Academy of Sport Annual Awards.

Hayley Turner rode Margot Did in the Al Quoz Sprint where she finished well back in the field.

Hayley Turner rode Cavaliero where she came last of the nine horses running.

In 2013 Hayley Turner was twice sidelined by injuries, breaking an ankle in July and then in September sustaining damage to her pelvis and three vertebrae in a fall at Doncaster.

Hayley Turner regained her jockey's licence to ride in the Shergar Cup team event at Ascot in August 2016.

In December 2017, Hayley Turner faced a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel when it emerged that she had opened an on-line betting account on her retirement and placed modest bets even though she still held a jockey's licence, which was a breach of racing rules.

Hayley Turner was given a nine-day suspension for her use of the whip on Thanks Be.

In November 2023 Hayley Turner rode her 1,000th worldwide winner, becoming the first female jockey in Europe to do so.

Hayley Turner achieved her 1,000th British win in July 2024.

Hayley Turner rode her 1,000th world-wide winner in November 2023 and her 1,000th Great British winner in July 2024.

Hayley Turner announced her pregnancy and immediate retirement in April 2025.

Hayley Turner was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to horse racing.

Hayley Turner has coeliac disease and follows a gluten-free diet.