Hayley Turner has come into contact will all manner of fans during her time as a leading jockey – including one who sent her a spliff from prison.
Turner, an OBE, who earned global fame in the sport while becoming the first woman to ride 100 UK flat race winners in a single year back in 2008, has major wins to her name including the July Cup and Nunthorpe Stakes in 2011.
Now 40, the Newmarket-based star has discussed some of the stranger items she has received from infatuated followers including a cannabis cigarette wrapped from behind bars.
Speaking to SafeBettingSites.com, Turner revealed: "Well before social media some guy used to write to me from Brixton prison.
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"I don’t know how the letters found their way to me because he just wrote 'Jockey Hayley Turner, Newmarket' but the Royal Mail did a great job of getting them to me.
"He used to write some pretty weird stuff and he actually sent me a spliff once, which was a bit random."
Turner, who has competed in the Shergar Cup a record sixteen times and was awarded an OBE for services to horse racing in 2016, also discussed how she has dealt with social media abuse.
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She said: "I have a group chat with my sisters and my mum and dad and I just take a screenshot and send it to them and we just joke about it.
"I know when I’ve done something wrong in a race I don’t need someone to tell me and I’ll be the first to put my hands up.
"They haven’t ridden the horse and they don’t know much.
"It’s probably some bloke eating a pot noodle with a can of cider sitting in their nana’s living room abusing me! I don’t care what they think."
Back in 2013, Turner brushed shoulders with Queen Elizabeth II as they collected their prizes as pocket and owner.
Sign Manual won The Dreweatts Handicap Stakes ads the pair chuckled and posed for snaps at Newbury.
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