Amateur jockey Hayley Moore has experienced big wins in the past, including the Longines Handicap Stakes at Ascot in 2011 (pictured above.)
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Moore (pictured right) also won the all-female UK race the following year.
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Now she has the opportunity to ride more regularly against female jockeys with the launch of the Silk Series -- a nine-race competition worth $124,000 to be held in 2017.
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It will mean Moore taking time out from her day job as a pundit and occasional race commentator.
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In 2011, she won a competition to become the UK's first female on-course race commentator, at Ascot.
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Moore is no stranger to the highest level of the sport, here riding out Mourilyan in preparation for the 2009 Melbourne Cup. She was a strapper for the horse -- trained by her father -- which placed third.
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Moore is the younger sister of leading flat jockey Ryan Moore, a two-time winner of Europe's richest race, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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Her father, jockey-turned-trainer Gary Moore, advised her to focus on her studies rather than pursue racing as a teenager.
