{"id":288240,"date":"2023-08-29T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=288240"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:04:14","slug":"im-a-top-female-jockey-i-once-received-a-spliff-in-the-post-from-a-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/im-a-top-female-jockey-i-once-received-a-spliff-in-the-post-from-a-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m a top female jockey \u2013 I once received a spliff in the post from a prisoner’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Speaking to SafeBettingSites.com, Turner revealed: "Well before social media some guy used to write to me from Brixton prison.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Female jockey left bloodied with broken nose and teeth after being attacked with rock<\/b><\/p>\n
"I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
"He used to write some pretty weird stuff and he actually sent me a spliff once, which was a bit random."<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
What is the weirdest thing you have ever received in the post? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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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.<\/p>\n
"I know when I\u2019ve done something wrong in a race I don\u2019t need someone to tell me and I\u2019ll be the first to put my hands up.<\/p>\n
"They haven\u2019t ridden the horse and they don\u2019t know much. <\/p>\n
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"It\u2019s probably some bloke eating a pot noodle with a can of cider sitting in their nana\u2019s living room abusing me! I don\u2019t care what they think."<\/p>\n
Back in 2013, Turner brushed shoulders with Queen Elizabeth II as they collected their prizes as pocket and owner.<\/p>\n
Sign Manual won The Dreweatts Handicap Stakes ads the pair chuckled and posed for snaps at Newbury.<\/p>\n