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• GAY KELLEWAY: BHA TO NTACT TRAER OVER HER SEXUAL HARASSMENT & BULLYG CLAIMS
• GAY KELLEWAY RACG
• GAY KELLEWAY
• GAY KELLEWAY RACG
• GAY KELLEWAY WS RACE HONOUR OF HER DAD
• GAY KELLEWAY, THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI A WNER AT ROYAL AST, SAYS FEMALE JOCKEYS STILL FACE PROBLEMS WH PREJUDICE RACG
• RACG NEWS AND TIPS: GAY KELLEWAY BACKS JOSEPHE GORDON FOR ROYAL AST BREAKTHROUGH
• GAY KELLEWAY RACG
• “THE GIFT OF GAY”: FATHER MATTHEW KELTY, CONFSOR TO THOMAS MERTON, DI AT 96
• KELLEYGAY MEANG
• GAY KELLEWAY, THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI A WNER AT ROYAL AST, SAYS FEMALE JOCKEYS STILL FACE PROBLEMS WH PREJUDICE RACG
• TRAILBLAZER GAY KELLEWAY HOPG TO BREAK NEW GROUND AS THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI AND TRA A WNER AT ROYAL AST

GAY KELLEWAY: BHA TO NTACT TRAER OVER HER SEXUAL HARASSMENT & BULLYG CLAIMS

"Who is Gay Kelleway?

Gay ro her first wner on the flat for leadg traer Clive Brta and at the tenr age of 17 years old fished send the ladi Amatr Champnship, she then won at 18, check to see if anyone else has won that young!

GAY KELLEWAY RACG

Gay was the first woman to ri a Gold Cup at Ast on Pretty Picture and the first woman to ri a wner at Royal Ast when her horse Sprowston Boy won. In total, Gay ro some 60 wners, no mean feat a untry where racg is 95% male passn for racg took her to New Zealand for the wter wng big rac at both the Auckland tracks Ellerslie and Avondale as there were more opportuni for women jockeys, but a nstant stggle wh her weight ma her ill so she cid to give up race ridg and return to retirg om race ridg she spent a year workg Media which stood her good stead to start trag. Gay started out by rentg a few box om Bob Champn but then moved to the state of the art, Whbe Manor where she felt would be the difference between a lol B & B and The is now back Newmarket after a perd trag Dubai and Lgfield.

Gay has to work long hours but still tri to fd time for her many iends and is always a very popular party gut. Very often owners will brg hors to Gay where they may not have sparkled wh other traers, and nothg giv her more satisfactn than seeg the horse w, and the fac of the owners when their pri and joy is led to the Wners Enclosure!

GAY KELLEWAY

It is 31 years sce Gay Kelleway won at Royal Ast, the first and only woman jockey to do so.

“Stan rang me and said: ‘Gay, I’ve got a real good rir.

I’d never even spoken to Gay before but after the race I got an earful.

GAY KELLEWAY RACG

“Gay msaged me the night before me out. Exclive: Horse racg rocked by sex sndal as female rir claims top jockey attacked herGay Kelleway claims the rir, known to lns of punters, pned her agast the wall and said, “You know you want , ” the prence of officialsGay Kelleway, pictured at her stabl 1998, says a well-known male jockey phed himself on her a changg roomA top female jockey has told of a terrifyg oral when a famo rir phed himself on her a changg room.

Gay Kelleway claimed the rir, known to lns of punters, pned her agast the wall and said, “You know you want , ” the prence of horse racg officials. They clu a naked male rir approachg her a sna, unsoliced night-time hotel viss om two traers, and Gay feelg she would be “safer” travellg to rac the horse box, rather than accept lifts and face unwanted advanc.

GAY KELLEWAY WS RACE HONOUR OF HER DAD

And Gay, 53, whose reer spans more than three s, warned that tragic nsequenc lie ahead for aspirg female jockeys and stable staff if the perpetrators are not driven out of racg for good. Gay says her harassment ntu today.

GAY KELLEWAY, THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI A WNER AT ROYAL AST, SAYS FEMALE JOCKEYS STILL FACE PROBLEMS WH PREJUDICE RACG

” The dghter of top Natnal Hunt jockey Pl Kelleway, Gay was sted to spend her life workg wh hors.

Gay ro her first wner at 17 and was leadg profsnal female rir three years a row. ” But there was a more sister rponse to Gay’s “tsn” to the ttosterone-fuelled atmosphere of the weighg room. Rellg her oral, at a time when female rirs did not have a signated changg room, Gay said: “I’ll never fet , I was gettg changed.

“[He said] ‘Come on, Gay, e on, you know you want . ” Reuntg another episo, Gay went on: “I ed to go and e a top jockey’s sna. “I ed to get lifts rs, ” said Gay, who has been wh partner Anne-Sophie for the past six years.

RACG NEWS AND TIPS: GAY KELLEWAY BACKS JOSEPHE GORDON FOR ROYAL AST BREAKTHROUGH

Gay, left, says she never said anythg through fear of not beg believed. The harassment did not stop when Gay retired om ridg to set out as a traer Newmarket 1991. As a traer, Gay has won numero big rac cludg the Three-Year-Old Sprt All-Weather Champnship at Lgfield Park 2015 wh Lightsmeractn.

Gay said: “I’ve known cints wh head lads harassg girls, grooms, the yard.

” Gay add: “I haven’t been paid to do this terview. Much has changed for the better sce the abhorrent events scribed by Gay. “Michael was a great tutor, and a top man, but was Gay Kelleway who gave me my first ri and that was my first wner, ” says Kirby.

GAY KELLEWAY RACG

At the time of wrg, Gay Kelleway has recently been the news due to her volvement ‘Racg To Help Ukrae’, a mpaign seekg to promote human and eque welfare durg the ongog Rso-Ukraian War. Of urse, Gay Kelleway is the dghter of the late Pl Kelleway, a highly succsful Natnal Hunt jockey and later a shrewd Flat traer, who died om pancreatic ncer 1999 aged 58. Like her father, Gay Kelleway first found fame as a jockey, beg the first woman to ri a wner at Royal Ast on Sprowston Boy the Queen Alexandra Stak 1987.

Wele to Gay Kelleway RacgOur team is based at Queen Alexandra Stabl, a tradnal 300 year old yard suated the village of Exng, meang that the famo gallops of Newmarket are easily accsible along wh eque swimmg To Help UkraeUNDER THE HAMMER SYNDICATEAfter a very succsful first season nng the unr hammer syndite Gay will be lnchg the 2nd of the syndit. GAY KELLEWAY had the first two home the Pl Kelleway Stak, a race named honour of her father, who died 1999. The Pl Kelleway Stak is named honour of Gay Kelleway's father, who died 1999The e ntt is for hors rated 0-90 and Layle and Uphold are both rated 90, so had everythg gog for is a race Kelleway has always wanted to w but has not always had a horse qualified to n.

“THE GIFT OF GAY”: FATHER MATTHEW KELTY, CONFSOR TO THOMAS MERTON, DI AT 96

''Gay was joed on the wner's podium by her sister Sarah and her nephew Pl, named after his snr started racg at the age of 11, and was apprenticed to Harry Wragg.

He ro his wner on the Flat jt after his 15th birthday and went on to ri for Capta Ryan Price and Fred Wter over the his 25-year reer as a jump jockey, Pl won the 1971 and 72 Champn Hurdl on Bula and the 1969 Cheltenham Gold Cup on What A started trag Newmarket 1977 and saddled eight Group One wners, cludg the French Oaks wner Madam Gay ridn by Lter Piggott. Kelleway's many wners at Lgfield clud Sweet As Sweet, one of Gay's first wners as an amatr jockey. Gay remas the only 'lady' jockey to have ridn a wner at Royal Ast, her father's Sprowston Boy 1987.

KELLEYGAY MEANG

Gay Kelleway, the only woman to ri a wner at Royal Ast, says female jockeys still face problems wh prejudice racg Gay Kelleway is chasg her first w as a traer wh Zebstar on ThursdayShe remas the only female jockey to have won a race as at Royal AstKelleway says the barriers she faced as a woman the 1980s exist today Updated: 22:36 BST, 13 June 2015. It may be 28 years ago but Gay Kelleway remembers makg history at Royal Ast mute 19, 1987. Gay Kelleway is the only female jockey to ri a wner - Sprowston Boy 1987 - at Royal Ast Kelleway seeks her first wner as a traer wh Zebstar Thursday’s Norfolk StakKelleway, 51, believ the barriers she faced back the 1980s still simmer below the surface.

GAY KELLEWAY, THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI A WNER AT ROYAL AST, SAYS FEMALE JOCKEYS STILL FACE PROBLEMS WH PREJUDICE RACG

Gay Kelleway, the only woman to ri a wner at Royal Ast, says female jockeys still face problems wh prejudice racg. It’s jt over thirty years sce Gay. Gay, 53, remembers the ocsn well, so well fact,.

After a succsful ridg reer, Gay.

Lodge Stabl Newmarket, Gay moved to the morn, but remote,. At that time, Gay took what appeared to be. Gay has long talked about relotg to.

TRAILBLAZER GAY KELLEWAY HOPG TO BREAK NEW GROUND AS THE ONLY WOMAN TO RI AND TRA A WNER AT ROYAL AST

Kelleway, Gay is a lourful, outspoken character. Earlier her reer, Gay traed Vortex –.