Time will do the telling
There will never be a champion female jockey, suggest some within the horseracing industry.
Retired female jump jockey, Victoria Roberts said, “there will never be a time when men and women are equal because there are not many women entering the sport that are good enough.”
“It’s also a numbers game, there are a hundred men doing it to five females, and I think this will always be the case,” she added.
In the UK a top male flat jockey secures at least twenty rides a week, in contrast a top female flat jockey would be extremely successful if she secured ten mounts per week.
“Women will never get the opportunities to have enough rides to ever become a champion jockey,” explains stable hand for trainer Clive Cox, Amy Dickins.
Flat jockey Simon Whitworth believes however, that in the next thirty years there will be the same amount of female jockeys to males in flat racing.
Simon said: “Women are coming through, women are going to get more opportunities because they are lighter, the weight will allow women to come through because there won’t be many boys that can do it, we as a human race are getting heavier.”
The jury is still out on whether women will ever achieve equality in regards to jockeys, and if their will ever be a female champion, it seems only time will tell.
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