Hat-trick heroics galore for Hollie Doyle following four trebles in eight days

Last year was a landmark one for Hollie Doyle but a fourth hat-trick in eight days has signalled the rider’s intent to build on her previous record-breaking success.

Three winners across the cards at Lingfield and Kempton on Saturday continued Doyle’s run of treble delight with 21 winners from 97 mounts this month – operating at an impressive 22 per cent strike-rate.

January has been Doyle’s best month since starting out in 2013, off the back of a campaign when she topped Josephine Gordon’s record for the most victories by a female jockey in a calendar year with 116 winners.

Doyle's hat-trick heroics

January 18 three winners at Lingfield
January 20 three winners at Kempton
January 22 two winners at Lingfield, one winner at Kempton
January 25 one winner at Lingfield, two winners at Kempton

Doyle, who has four rides at Wolverhampton on Monday evening, said: “It’s been a great start to the year. You ride with a bit of confidence on the back of winners but most importantly I’ve been on the right horses, which is key. My agent Guy Jewell has been doing a good job and I’m just trying to keep the ball rolling on from last year.

“It’s important to keep level-headed as I could ride 20 winners this month and two next month, but I’m trying to make the most of it while it’s going so well.

“I’m riding for Archie [Watson] and we have plenty of runners over the winter, including some unraced horses to bring out, so I wanted to stay here on the all-weather over the winter for them.

“I haven’t set a numerical target for the year but I just want to be happy in what I’m doing, continue to learn and improve and pick up as many rides as I can.”

Hollie Doyle stands for a photo with Felix at Lingfield - the second of three winners last WednesdayCredit: Mark Cranham

Doyle sits second in the all-weather jockeys’ championship with 44 winners behind runaway leader Ben Curtis on 65 and hopes to have unearthed a leading Finals day hope in Rainbow Dreamer.

The Alan King-trained seven-year-old extended his unbeaten all-weather record to four this winter, most recently landing a conditions event at Wolverhampton for which he earned a starting berth in the Marathon at Lingfield on April 10.

Doyle, who became the third female jockey to ride 100 winners in a year in 2019, said: “He’s taken to the all-weather so well and has been coming on leaps and bounds with each run. He’s impressed me and improved with every run.

“He’s not been around Lingfield yet but he’s taken to Wolverhampton and Kempton very well so he’s a definite contender for the Marathon on Finals day.”

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