NHRA Female Jockey permanent sex allowance.

Subject: Rule 54.14

 

 

54.2     ALTERATIONS IN THE WEIGHTS

 

54.14   OWNERS or TRAINERS may claim and are responsible for the claiming of an APPRENTICE and female sex allowance in any RACE, except any RACE specified to preclude APPRENTICE and female sex allowances, for the RACE MEETING concerned.  The APPRENTICE allowance shall be 4Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE has ridden his 20th winner; thereafter the allowance shall be 2.5Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE has ridden his 40th winner and thereafter 1.5Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE rides his 50th winner. In the case of a female APPRENTICE, the allowance shall be 4Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE has ridden her 20th winner; thereafter the allowance shall be 3Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE has ridden her 40th winner and thereafter 2Kg until the end of the RACE MEETING in which the APPRENTICE rides her 50th winner. Thereafter there shall be a permanent female sex allowance of 1.5Kg for the remainder of her riding career.

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

I had a word with Vee in connection with above announcement and the reason for the change.

Vee would like to give more female jockeys a chance to join the industry as in places like Australia and UK there is a big population of lady riders.

This has been tried and successful in France.

Female horses have a sex allowance so why not the actual lady riders.

He hopes this will start a trend and upswing in ladies joining the ranks and also consider that a ladies riding lifespan is less than the male counterparts..

I'm sure not that long ago the French introduced similar

Caused uproar among the male jocks, even AP MCcoy had a big mouth about it..

Think it's a great idea

Just hope we don't have a Caitlyn Jenner out there to confuse matters. 😉

Let's give it a go 😃