{"id":296237,"date":"2023-11-12T00:11:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T00:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296237"},"modified":"2023-11-12T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T00:11:16","slug":"jockey-hayley-turner-sheds-light-on-her-amazing-career-and-storm-babet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/jockey-hayley-turner-sheds-light-on-her-amazing-career-and-storm-babet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career and Storm Babet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: Britain&#8217;s most successful female jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career&#8230; and surviving the hectic and terrifying Storm Babet<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hayley Turner&#8217;s tally for career victories currently stands at a staggering 999\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 40-year-old will become the first European woman to reach four figures<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>As the daughter of a shopkeeper, she had no natural connection with racing<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great story,\u2019 says Hayley Turner, as she makes a pot of tea at her Newmarket home, and how appropriate that little sentence proves to be.<\/p>\n<p>Hers is, indeed, a great story \u2014 inspirational, even. She is the daughter of a Nottingham shopkeeper, who had no natural connection with racing but, with talent and ambition, she became Britain\u2019s most successful female jockey, a re-writer of history.<\/p>\n<p>Turner, a fervent Notts County fan, will do that again the next time she rides a winner: her tally for career victories stands at 999 and the 40-year-old will become the first European woman to reach four figures. She smiles when the number is mentioned and is rightly proud. But this is so much more than a cliched narrative about a woman thriving in a man\u2019s world, mention of which has Turner rolling her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>No. The great story that kicks things off involves Storm Babet, a flood, a local pub and the angst of seeing a winner slip away.<\/p>\n<p>Turner had been booked to ride the well-fancied Run Zarak Run at Redcar on October 20 but, as he galloped unchallenged to a commanding triumph, she was submerging 110 miles away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/22\/77667785-12736089-image-a-126_1699654211294.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s most successful female jockey Hayley Turner has shed light on her amazing career<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/22\/77667783-12736089-image-a-127_1699654211296.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old has 999 career victories and will be Europe&#8217;s first woman to reach four figures<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Oh God!\u2019 she begins, as her black labrador, Frank, yaps away for attention. \u2018So I was driving up north and I got sent off on a diversion up the Great North Road, just after Newark. All the cars were slowing down, because the water was on the road, but they were getting through it, slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I thought to myself, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll be fine\u201d but as I was traipsing through the water got deeper and next thing I know, my car is at a standstill. So I rang Dad. He says, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you ring the AA?\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019m not a member and I don\u2019t suppose they\u2019ve got any boats\u2026\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Laughing now, she mimics the face of incredulity she knew would be on the other end of the phone. \u2018Well, Dad can\u2019t believe it,\u2019 Turner continues. \u2018He says, \u201cYou\u2019re not a member? Of the AA? Well I think it\u2019s something you\u2019re going to have put on your list\u201d. I\u2019m like, \u201cDad! There\u2019s a time and a place for this chat!\u201d Anyway, I rang 999 as the water was so high and I couldn\u2019t open the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I suppose I could have paddled out but, thankfully, a fire engine with two firemen came along. They said, \u201cLeave your car keys and everything in there\u201d. They took me over to the engine but when they went back to the car, everything had shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My bag, laptop, iPad, riding out gear, bank cards: everything was in there. The police moved it eventually and took me to a place called Tuxford and there was this one pub \u2014 the kind where it\u2019s 3pm on a weekday and everyone is really loud and drunk!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I sat in the corner and thought to myself, \u201cWell, it\u2019s as good a time as any to have a gin and tonic and ring the insurance company\u201d. Then my phone starts buzzing with all these messages. I knew what had happened, so I should be on 1,000. Anyway\u2026 it\u2019s a great story!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There is no need for her to panic. The milestone will come \u2014 she has two chances at Newcastle this afternoon \u2014 and support for her is huge, not least from Judy Murray, with whom Turner struck up a bond when they worked on the ITV show Driving Force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When you talk to her, she is genuinely passionate,\u2019 Turner says, as we watch a replay of her biggest day, winning the 2011 July Cup on Dream Ahead, on iPad. \u2018It\u2019s that feeling you get when you know have got someone\u2019s full support and they think it\u2019s brilliant what you do.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/22\/77669595-12736089-image-a-20_1699655281967.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Turner retired once already &#8211; back in 2015 &#8211;\u00a0having become disillusioned by the knocks she kept taking<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/22\/77667781-12736089-image-a-128_1699654211306.jpg\" height=\"953\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Turner revealed a moment of sheer panic when she called AA during the ferocious storm Babet<\/p>\n<p>And Turner is brilliant at what she does. You do not last in an industry as ferociously competitive as racing for as long as she has done without having natural ability or steely determination.<\/p>\n<p>There have, of course, been difficult days. She shows the battle scars of injuries and names almost every part of her body in terms of breakages. Turner retired once, in 2015, having become disillusioned by the knocks she kept taking.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I retired, I had to work for a living and I didn\u2019t like that!\u2019 she says. \u2018But I was so interested in the amount of bones I\u2019d broken, I wanted to understand it a bit. So I did a diploma in fitness and personal training: I\u2019m actually qualified as a gym instructor now. I\u2019m not retiring again.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Why would she? This is everything she has loved doing since leaving school, having come in one day to tell her dad, Richard, and mum, Kate, she was going to the Northern Racing College to become a jockey. Her only previous experience around horses had been on her pony, Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They were like, \u201cYes, dear! You do whatever makes you happy!\u201d\u2019 says Turner, who has two elder sisters, Connie and Gemma. \u2018They must have thought, \u201cHere we go again!\u201d I\u2019d never been to the races, never had any interest in racing. But the people at school thought I was quite good.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yet her first ride \u2014 at Southwell, on March 27, 2000 \u2014 could easily have been her last.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The horse was called Markellis,\u2019 she recalls. \u2018Halfway round, he broke his leg. My parents were in the stands, waiting for me to come back. I had to stay with the vets while they tended to it. I took the tack off and walked back to the weighing room.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I saw Mum and Dad and I\u2019m saying to myself, \u201cDon\u2019t cry! Don\u2019t cry!\u201d I walked into the weighing room and couldn\u2019t believe what had happened. It\u2019s mad, isn\u2019t it? But that\u2019s the thing with us jockeys: we are all mad.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/22\/77669535-12736089-image-a-19_1699655139592.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Turner was made an OBR in 2016 and has had plenty of success in the royal silks, which led to conversations with the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a better way to frame it is she has a zest for life, which is encapsulated in this story about the late Queen. Turner, made an OBE in 2016, has enjoyed plenty of success in the Royal silks, leading to several conversations with Her Majesty.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I first met her, I\u2019d won for her and we had a couple of jokes,\u2019 says Turner. \u2018I rode for her the next year, in the same race, and we won it again. We were up on the podium, getting our prizes. She says to me, \u201cOoh, we\u2019ve done this before, haven\u2019t we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018So I said, \u201cYes, Maam\u2026 you should pay me a retainer!\u201d She looks at me and there is this pause.\u2019 As she relays this, you can still see the terror in her face from the silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Then she started laughing,\u2019 says Turner. \u2018I really thought I\u2019d gone too far! Thank God she did. It\u2019s all been so much fun.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/racing\/article-12736089\/Britains-successful-female-jockey-Hayley-Turner-sheds-light-amazing-career-surviving-Storm-Babet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Britain&#8217;s most successful female jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career&#8230; and surviving the hectic and terrifying Storm Babet Hayley Turner&#8217;s tally for career victories currently stands at a staggering 999\u00a0 The 40-year-old will become the first European woman to reach four figures As the daughter of a shopkeeper, she had no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career and Storm Babet - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/horse-racing\/jockey-hayley-turner-sheds-light-on-her-amazing-career-and-storm-babet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career and Storm Babet - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: Britain&#8217;s most successful female jockey Hayley Turner sheds light on her amazing career&#8230; 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