Georgia Dobie

This season, she has ridden 16 winners from 180 races — roughly 1 in every 11, a 9% win rate — which is a genuine step forward from last year's 6%. Progress in this sport is rarely linear, and moving from 6 to 9% represents real momentum. The last fortnight has been even sharper: one winner from six rides, a 17% return, suggesting she is hitting form at the right time.

Her most important professional relationship is with trainer Craig Benton. Together they have produced 6 wins from 44 rides — a 14% win rate, meaning they succeed roughly 1 in every 7 times they team up. That is meaningfully better than her overall average, which tells you the combination works. When Benton puts Dobie on a horse, it pays to take notice.

One thing that stands out in her numbers is how she performs when the ground gets soft and cut in it. On slightly soft ground, she has won 3 times from just 9 races — a 33% win rate, or 1 in every 3. For context, that is more than three times her season average. Some jockeys simply ride better when the ground is testing, finding a rhythm and confidence that dry, faster conditions don't bring out in the same way. Dobie appears to be one of them.

Her partnership with Because We Can — one win from three races together — is too small a sample to draw firm conclusions, but it is a relationship worth watching. The wider picture is of a jockey on an upward curve: more winners than last year, a better win rate, top-level prizes already on her record, and a fortnight of form that suggests the best may still be ahead.