Alex Greaves is a retired
British flat racing
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jockey.
Career
She was the first woman to win a
Group 1 horse race in Great Britain when she dead-heated in the 1997
Nunthorpe Stakes
The Nunthorpe Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged two years or older. It is run at York over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres), and it is sche ...
at
York
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on
Ya Malak
Ya Malak (18 January 1991 – ca. 25 March 1999) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter, he won ten of his forty-nine races in a track career which lasted from May 1993 until September 1998. In his first three seasons he ...
. She became the first female apprentice to ride out her claim and partnered around 300 winners in a 15-year career.
[
She was married to the late racehorse trainer, ]Dandy Nicholls
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Major wins
Great Britain
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*Nunthorpe Stakes
The Nunthorpe Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged two years or older. It is run at York over a distance of 5 furlongs (1,006 metres), and it is sche ...
- ''Ya Malak
Ya Malak (18 January 1991 – ca. 25 March 1999) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. A specialist sprinter, he won ten of his forty-nine races in a track career which lasted from May 1993 until September 1998. In his first three seasons he ...
(1997 (dh))''
References
British female jockeys
English jockeys
Lester Award winners
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