Women Jockeys - Ep 1 - A Tribute by Kevin Harris - 2013

Featuring South African woman jockeys Lisa Prestwood, Denise Lee & the late Australian woman jockey Simone Montgomery.
For any young woman, a career as a jockey in South Africa is a difficult and courageous choice.
But there was a time - not so long ago - when it was not even an option - when women were refused entry to the Jockey Academy of South Africa.
The first courageous woman to effectively break down the door of prejudice when refused entry to the Summerveld Academy in 1985 was Lisa Prestwood. It took Lisa twelve years but on her first engagement in South Africa at Gosforth Park Race Course on 3rd August 1997 Lisa changed the course of history when - out of her three rides - she rode two winners & one second. And that was just the beginning .... this is her story.