Alex Hammond Blog: Hollie Doyle's incredible day

Sky Sports Racing's Alex Hammond hails the feats of Hollie Doyle in this week's blog while looking ahead to the weekend's action at Haydock and Ascot.

Sometimes (actually quite often) in my job I feel incredibly lucky to be at a certain place, at a certain time.

That was true of Windsor on Saturday. Now you know I love a trip to the Thamesside track as much as anyone and have really missed my regular Monday evening visits there during this strange year we are experiencing. What happened at the weekend went a long way to making up for that.

I was exchanging WhatsApp messages with my Sky Sports Racing colleague Jamie Lynch from dawn, as we both regularly refreshed Twitter to see if officials at the track had given the meeting the go ahead prior to the official 6.30am inspection that had been called.

A deluge of rain had hit that part of the country in the days (and weeks) running up to Windsor's biggest fixture of the year and there was a collective sigh of relief from the pair of us when clerk of the course Sophie Candy gave the meeting the all clear. It was on, but even then we couldn't have foreseen what an incredible day we were going to be lucky to be involved with. ราคาบอลไหล

My tip of the day was a horse of Roger Charlton's called Maurimo whom I thought had an outstanding chance of giving Hollie Doyle a winner in the mile handicap.

Sadly, the ground went against her and she was a non-runner, leaving Hollie with rides in the remaining eight races. To think I considered that to be Hollie's best chance of a winner on the card! She booted home an 899-1 five-timer, becoming the first female jockey in the UK to ride five winners on a card.

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