Hayley Turner brings the curtain down on her career as a jockey with five rides on the final day of the Flat season at Doncaster on Saturday.
Turner is the most successful female rider in British racing history having recorded a landmark success when steering the David Simcock-trained Dream Ahead to victory in the July Cup at Newmarket in 2011, becoming the first woman to secure a Group One victory outright.
She then followed up with another top-level success aboard Margot Did in the Nunthorpe Stakes later that summer, while Simcock supplied Turner with a Grade One win on I'm A Dreamer in the Beverly D. Stakes of 2012.
The 32-year-old, who also became the first woman to ride 100 winners in a calendar year on the Flat in 2007, admits her 15-year career has flown by.
"It's all been a big blur really," she said.
"When I started riding, I wanted a few rides and then I wanted a winner. When I had a winner I wanted to lose my claim and then I wanted a Listed winner - it's just progressed.
"I never set my targets too high."
"It's a really tough job, but the jockeys that are riding now do it because they love it."
Reflecting on some of her greatest achievements, Turner said: "When I had 100 winners in a year, that was special. It's been amazing and I've been very lucky to have so many people supporting me.
"That (I'm A Dreamer's success) was another fantastic day. I went over there to ride Wigmore Hall in the Arlington Million and picked up that spare ride.
"I'm sure it's something I'll appreciate more when I stop and look back as everything is a rush (at the time)."
Turner points to the daily grind of travelling the length and breadth of the country for rides as one of the main reasons she decided to call it a day.
Asked for what advice she would give to anyone hoping to follow in her footsteps, she said: "You've got to want to do it - you need the passion.
"It's a really tough job, but the jockeys that are riding now do it because they love it.
"As long as they're enjoying it and working hard, anything's achievable.
"If you want to get on in the game and do well, you have to be all in. You can't just pick and choose - unless you're Frankie Dettori or William Buick, who can get away with it.
"Jockeys at my level have to be full on and that's why I'm ready to take a step away from it."
Turner's first ride on her final day as a jockey is aboard the Richard Whitaker-trained Penny Pot Lane in the Betfred "Racing's Biggest Supporter" Nursery Handicap.
She will then partner Tom Dascombe's Hillbilly Boy in a race named in her honour, the Betfred Good Luck Hayley Turner Handicap, before riding Ghalib for Ed Walker in the Listed Betfred Lotto #100K Cash Giveaway Wentworth Stakes.
William Haggas' Bella Nouf should give Turner a good spin in the Betfred TV EBF Stallions Breeding Winners Gillies Fillies' Stakes, before she bows out aboard trainer Declan Carroll's Buonarroti in the feature Betfred November Handicap.
