Jamie Melham became the second woman ever to win the Lexus Melbourne Cup, riding the 8-1 shot Half Yours to victory and beating her husband Ben in the process. Racing has moved on in the ten years ...

Atop a young bay in trainer Brad Cox’s stable, she trotted alongside two of his other horses, then galloped around the far side, crouched low over the horse’s back. By 8 .am. she was walking back to ...

Rarely can a jockey’s career spanning just three years, 18 rides and one winner have been considered good autobiography material, but when the unheralded Karen Wiltshire won the Winterbourne Handicap ...

LONDON — Rachael Blackmore, the first female jockey to win the Grand National, retired from horse racing on Monday with immediate effect. The 35-year-old Blackmore became globally renowned in 2021 ...

The Professional Jockeys Association has said its female members are experiencing "inadequate safeguarding and discriminatory facilities" after it was revealed only 12 of Britain's racecourses met the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In 2024, women can be found working across all positions and at all levels of horse racing. But when the Kentucky Derby first began, K entucky Derby Museum curator of Collections ...

Female jockeys were once a rarity in the riders' change rooms. But at country race meetings across northern Western Australia, they are now often finding themselves in the majority. It is a rare sport ...