Another landmark success for Hollie Doyle

PA Sport Reporters
December 22, 2020 1:38 pm

Victory at Lingfield is 150th of record-breaking campaign.

Hollie Doyle continued to take the headlines as she secured her 150th winner of 2020 aboard Darwell Lion at Lingfield.

Record-breaking Doyle capped her remarkable year by finishing third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year poll on Sunday and reached her latest milestone two days later with a clear-cut victory on Ellmarie Holden’s Irish challenger.

The two-year-old was a 4-1 shot for his racecourse debut in the Play Ladbrokes 5-A-Side On Football EBF Novice Stakes and overcame signs of inexperience to power down the outside and score nicely by a length from La Tihaty.

150 winners for @HollieDoyle1 in 2020, and this one’s a beauty! 🏆
Our ambassador gives Darwell Lion a magnificent ride to score at @LingfieldPark for @EllmarieHolden 👏 pic.twitter.com/IIkgAHLLib
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) December 22, 2020

Doyle had already surpassed her own record tally for the most winners in a calendar year by a female jockey, set in 2019 – and pulled off a brilliant Champions Day double at Ascot in October, including her first Group One aboard Glen Shiel in the British Champions Sprint.

The 24-year-old also claimed her first Royal Ascot success on Scarlet Dragon, and rode fives winners on a card at Windsor in August.

She has since taken part at the Breeders’ Cup in America and became the first female to ride a winner in the Longines International Jockeys Championship in Hong Kong this month.