Hollie Doyle looking to create new milestone at Ascot

In a year of significant milestones, Doyle enjoyed her first Royal Ascot success aboard Scarlet Dragon and then went on to claim her first Group victory when Dame Malliot triumphed in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket.

Doyle set another benchmark when breaking her own British record for winners in a calendar year for a female rider when notching her 117th success of 2020 at Kempton on Wednesday.

“I don’t usually set goals, but I actually walked out into the season having that particular goal to ride a Group winner at some point, so it was an excellent day,” she said.

The next logical target is a Group One success, but Doyle is prepared to wait to become only the third female jockey to ever achieve that. “One day,” she said. “I know how hard it is to come across a Group One horse, so I’ll be patient with that one.”

In August Doyle also became the first female jockey to win five races on the same card, completing her 899-1 five-timer at Windsor.

Now she will partner the Roger Charlton-trained Extra Elusive in the Group One Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot tomorrow.

“He’s one of my favourites,” she said of the gelding she steered to victory in both Windsor’s Winter Hill Stakes and Rose of Lancaster at Haydock – both Group Three contests.

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