Female jockeys on the rise after a dominant season across northern Western Australia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The number of female apprentice jockeys is sky-rocketing across Australia. Country cups in WA's north-west have been dominated by female riders, both in the field and on the winner's podium.

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00:00It's Cup Day in Carnarvon and the riders are ready for race 4.

00:079 out of 13 jockeys are women.

00:10Since I've been race riding it's been a great experience, all the opportunities I've been given.

00:15Holly Nottle is among 8 apprentice jockeys making an appearance at the Cup.

00:19She hails from a farm in Brookton.

00:21Coming to the country tracks is honestly such a different experience from the city tracks.

00:27The environment of the people, it's all so different and there's always a crowd that turns up and it really whits your spirits.

00:34In WA, 11 out of 12 apprentice jockeys for the past season are female.

00:39It's not like 20, 30 years ago where it was definitely a lot tougher for the females,

00:44but we've had our time to be able to prove that we can be as strong and can be as competitive as the males.

00:50A change reflected across Northern WA over the winter racing season.

00:54Out of 10 country cup winning jockeys, 7 were women.

00:57In Carnarvon, Austin Gilardi bucked that trend.

01:00But he'll have to work hard to continue beating this field of talented up and comers.

01:04I just think girls are going to dominate the sport from this day onwards.

01:08Odds are on the next Carnarvon Cup winner will be a woman.

01:11in personagem.

01:12N STANDARVON

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