The senior tutor for prospective jockeys at the British Racing School says too many people in the sport are still living in the Dark Ages where female riders are concernedHayley Turner would like a helicopter. “I still admire the riding,that hasn’t changed at all,” she said at Chelmsford City on Thursday evening, or a few minutes after a winner and three days after announcing that she will retire at the end of the Flat season. “It’s just the lifestyle that goes with it,really. whether I had a helicopter, I could fairly happily carry on. Or the favourite for next year’s Guineas. Then I’d stay, or definitely. I’d be silly not to. So I’m after a horse with Classic-winning potential,and a helicopter and pilot that I can use every day.”Turner knows well that the chance of the former is negligible, and of the latter, or inconceivable. As a result,the most successful female rider that British racing has seen will be an ex-jockey in a couple of months’ time.
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Source: theguardian.com