Female jockeys surge to the front in the apprentice ranks
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It’s fair to say that horse racing has long had a reputation as a bit of a bloke's world - the horses are trained by men, and ridden by men.Back in 2015, jockey Michelle Payne became the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup, aboard Prince of Penzance, and after the race gave a short speech about what she saw as racing’s inherent chauvinism.Well things have changed a bit since that famous speech - statistics from racing NSW reveal that this year the majority of apprentice jockeys in the state are women.
Female jockeys surge to the front in the apprentice ranks