How difficult is it for a woman to become a jockey?
Women have always enjoyed horse racing as spectators and there have been some notable successes in training, but it is still tough to make it as a professional jockey. Flat racing is hard to get into, but it is even more difficult to become a jump jockey and without race experience a woman cannot improve. It is a situation that has persuaded one amateur rider to organise a single sex hurdles championship. Jill Hopkins reports from the women’s race at Stratford.
