At the time of writing, Hollie Doyle faces a spell on the sidelines, not for the first time in her career, after suffering a serious leg injury when her mount, Vault Of Heaven, trained by Kevin Frost, went wrong before halfway in a sprint handicap at Bath on May 22, 2026. Back in 2017, but for three falls, including one from Pearl Spectre, trained by Phil McEntee, after passing the post in an apprentice handicap at Goodwood on June 16, in which she broke her collarbone, Doyle may well have won the apprentices’ title that year. Having missed about eight weeks of the season, though, she eventually finished fourth, rode out her claim on Hidden Stash, trained by William Stone, in a handicap at Lingfield on November 25, 2017 and finished the year with a then career-best 59 winners.
Born in Ivington, Herefordshire on October 11, 1996, Doyle rode her first winner under Rules, The Mongoose, trained by David Evans, in a lady amateur riders’ handicap at Salisbury on May 5, 2013. She subsequently became apprenticed to Richard Hannon and in 2019, just her second season has a fully-fledged professional, rode 116 winners, beating the previous record of 106 winners set by Jospehine Gordon two years earlier. Doyle subsequently beat her own record twice in as many years, riding 150 winners in 2020 and 172 winners in 2021, the latter seasonal tally being her highest so far.
Nowadays stable jockey to Archie Watson at Saxon Gate in Upper Lambourn, West Berkshire, Doyle rode her first Group 1 winner for the yard, Glenshiel, in the British Champion Series at Ascot on October 17, 2020. She has since added 10 more, the most recent of which was Bradsell, also trained by Watson, in the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh on September 15, 2024. On March 24, 2025, Doyle reached the landmark of 1,000 career winners on British soil on Handle With Care, trained by Marco Botti, in a fillies’ handicap at Lingfield, thereby becoming just the second female jockey, after Hayler Turner, to do so.