Miss Brodie Hampson

Her most important professional relationship is with trainer Archie Watson, and it has been quietly fruitful. Six of her 31 career winners have come through that yard, from 41 races together — a win rate of around 1 in every 7. That might not sound spectacular, but trainers tend to be loyal to jockeys who deliver, and Watson keeping her in the saddle across 41 rides tells its own story. When a trainer trusts you with that volume of horses, it means you are doing something right.

Perhaps the most striking detail of all is what happens when the rain comes. On wet or muddy ground, Hampson has won 2 races from just 4 — that is half of everything she has ridden in those conditions. Small sample sizes can be misleading, but a 50% record on wet ground is the kind of stat that makes trainers pick up the phone when the forecast turns grey. Some jockeys simply have a feel for horses in the mud — an ability to settle them, to find rhythm when others are scrambling — and Hampson looks like she might be one of them.

Thirty-one career winners in four years places her firmly in the category of a rider building steadily rather than one who burst onto the scene. But the trajectory is what matters here, and right now that trajectory is pointing sharply upward. If the improvement from last season to this one continues at anything like the same pace, bigger opportunities will follow. The sport tends to notice when a jockey suddenly starts winning at twice the rate they used to.