Great British Racing (GBR) has been hard at work creating a social media campaign supporting 24-year-old British jockey Hollie Doyle in her bid to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, according to the Racing Post. Doyle has been nominated for the award along with five other British athletes, and the winner will be voted on during the live awards show on BBC One this Sunday, Dec. 20.
Doyle has had a busy 2020 racing season: she rode her first Royal Ascot winner and won her first Group 1 race with Glen Shiel in the British Champions Sprint at Ascot in October. Doyle also broke her own record for most winners in a calendar year by a female jockey, and became the first female jockey to win a race during Hong Kong's LONGINES International Jockeys' Championship earlier this month at Happy Valley.
The only racing figure to win the award was Sir Anthony McCoy in 2010, so GBR is urging racing fans to rally together for world-wide support of the female jockey's bid for history through the use of social media and the hashtag #VoteHollie.
GBR published a feature story about Doyle's meteoric rise through the racing industry, which can be viewed here, as well as the video shown below.
A public vote will be conducted during Sunday's live show, which begins at 8:00 p.m. local time (3:00 p.m. Eastern) on BBC1.
Read more at racingpost.com.
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