Chapple-Hyam overjoyed as Guineas runner-up Saffron Beach shows her quality
By Andy Stephens@StevoGG
Saffron Beach had finished runner-up in the QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on Sunday.
The Newmarket trainer is hugely respected among her peers but has never trained anything more significant than a Group Three winner. A near-miss in one of the season s most prestigious races gave her a huge thrill. Can you just say that again, that sounded good! she said to Racing TV s Tom Stanley after he had begun his interview with her by saying Saffron Beach had finished second in the Guineas.
“What can I say? Aidan O’Brien is just a genius, she added. He is hard to take on and I can’t wait for him to retire!
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Hollie Doyle has added more accolades to her record-breaking 2020 by scooping three Lester Awards – as she is named the first female Flat jockey of the year.
Nine awards were presented at the virtual Professional Jockeys Association’s (PJA) Lester Awards 2020, which celebrate the achievements of jockeys over the previous 12 months.
Hollie, 24, was crowned female jockey of the year and Flat jockey of the year – making her the first female to win this award. She also took the Flat jockey special recognition award. She is only the second jockey to win three Lesters in a single year Paul Hanagan achieved this in 2010.
Hollie Doyle becomes first woman to be voted ‘Flat Jockey of the Year’ on day she rides her 150th winner of the year
Just days after coming third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Doyle sets a new record
22 December 2020 • 7:15pm
A double at Lingfield on Darwell Lion and Kendergarten Kop took Doyle through the 150 barrier to 151 winners for the year, also a new record for a female jockey
Credit: PA
There were nine awards up for grabs at the Professional Jockeys Association awards, nicknamed the ‘Lesters’ in tribute to the greatest living jockey Lester Piggott and as a nod to the Oscars, held on Sky Sports Racing channel on Monday night rather than at a gala dinner.