Hollie Doyle – SPOTY!

UPDATED: Congratulations to Hollie Doyle who was 3rd in the Sports Personality of the Year Awards behind winner F1 racing driver Lewis Hamilton and 2nd placed footballer Jordan Henderson.

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Not only is there equestrian interest with a jockey in the Sports Personality of the Year shortlist for 2020, but she’s Herefordshire born and bred!

Already the winner of the Sunday Times Sportswomen of the Year award, flat race jockey Hollie Doyle hit the headlines this year with her record breaking successes. Hollie’s 148 wins in the UK, to date, include five winners on the same card at Windsor (becoming the first woman to achieve this), a win at Royal Ascot, her first Group 1 (highest-rated race) win on QIPCO British Champions Day, where she was leading jockey on the day with a double and on top of all that, Hollie has not surprisingly broken her own record for the number of winners ridden by a British woman in a year.

The diminutive 24 yr old began riding before she could walk. This was inevitable because her father Mark rode both on the flat and over fences as well as training point to pointers, her mother Caroline rode in Arab racing and her grandmother bred Arab horses. Hollie started out in the Radnor & West Hereford Pony Club but it was riding in a pony race aged 12 which confirmed her dedication to the sport of racing. She went to the British Racing School Pony Camp aged 16 where she met her now partner Tom Marquand who has spoken of her great work ethic and fitness regime both of which keep her top of her game.

Sports Personality of the Year is on BBC1 on Sunday 20th December from 8pm until 10pm.

Don’t forget to #voteHollie #SPOTY2020.