‘The lads I’ve worked with have never looked at me differently. Everyone’s been pretty fair’

But the lag remains in championship and Group One races – the best horses, in the biggest races. In 2018, the year before Turner’s win on Thanks Be, only nine rides at an average starting price of 41-1 were given to women riders, the Racing Post reported. Turner had been placed three times from 36 mounts. “Hollie Doyle will be riding in big races soon, she’s only young and the opportunities will come,” Turner says. “I just think it’s a case of them building up the momentum. It’s not going to happen overnight.”

Over jumps, Rachael Blackmore, Lizzie Kelly and Bryony Frost are on a more equal footing at the Cheltenham Festival. Across both codes from 2015-2019, the number of wins by female riders rose 76 per cent. And last year at Ascot’s Champions Day, Nicola Currie became the first female to ride in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. It was only in 1975 that women were allowed to ride as professionals at the Royal meeting. Joanna Morgan in the 1978 Queen’s Vase was the first.

Racing is inching to a point where gender is no longer an “issue”. All jockeys, though, remain famously phlegmatic. No raucous celebrations attended Turner’s win 12 months ago. That evening she joined Thanks Be’s owners, Emma and Simon Capon: “I went and met them for a drink and the lads from the yard came as well. I was there for an hour, but I couldn’t drag it on because I was riding the next day. That’s the thing with racing, the celebrations are short.

“I had a quick chat with Andrew Balding and Oisin Murphy [after their 2,000 Guineas win with Kameko] and said, ‘Did you get stuck into celebrations?’ They both said the same thing: ‘Not as much as we’d like to have done.’ They were up and at it the next day.”

The rejoicing was brief for Turner, but the impact continues.