Personal Life
Hayley Turner is often regarded as the "pin-up girl" of UK horseracing, and has been frequently featured by daily newspapers as well as being chosen as the face of media campaigns within the sport. However Turner generally shuns the role of 'attractive girl', preferring to trade on her craft in the saddle.
Turner is like many UK Flat jockeys based in Newmarket, Suffolk: also the base of her main employer, Michael Bell.
Hayley is also one of few top class sportsmen or women, who admit to suffering from Coeliac Disease.
Hayley Turner is a popular, though sensible, Twitter user. During the early years of Hayley's career a popular website and racing forum was devoted to her. It subsequently closed, however of 2011 a new, official website updated by Hayley has opened at http://www.hayleyturner.com.
In 2011, Hayley Turner became a Member of the Jaguar Academy of Sport and she received the 'Most Inspirational Sportswoman' Award at the 2011 Jaguar Academy of Sport Annual Awards.
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