Hayley Turner© Photo Healy Racing
Leading jockey Hayley Turner is set to retire at the end of the season.
It is understood a combination of injuries and increasing lack of opportunities at the top level are behind the Nottingham-born rider's decision, who is a three-times Group One-winning rider.
Turner, 32, recorded a landmark success when steering the David Simcock-trained Dream Ahead to victory in the July Cup at Newmarket in 2011 and she followed up when Margot Did won the Nunthorpe Stakes for Michael Bell, with whom she started her career as an apprentice.
Simcock supplied Turner with another victory at the top level courtesy of I'm A Dreamer in the Beverly D. Stakes of 2012.
Big-race rides have been hard to come by since then for Turner, who is flying back from Japan and is scheduled to appear on At The Races on Tuesday morning to explain her plans.
Turner captained the Girls team to a famous success at the Shergar Cup at the beginning of August and has been riding at the World All-Star Jockeys challenge at Sapporo racecourse, recording a winner on Sunday.
She tweeted after that win: "Wooohooo....Winner. What an amazing venue with a brilliant crowd. Thank u Japan."
Another notable win for Turner was the 2010 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock on Barshiba - the dam of Golden Horn's recent conqueror Arabian Queen - for David Elsworth in the colours of Jeff Smith.
