{"id":18173,"date":"2026-02-02T22:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18173"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:23:28","slug":"aamilah-aswat-makes-history-with-first-career-wiun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=18173","title":{"rendered":"Aamilah Aswat makes history with first career wiun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Aamilah Aswat has made history as the first female black British jump jockey to win a UK horse race.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 20-year-old earned her first win on 9-1 chance Guchen in a handicap hurdle at Kempton Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In November, Aswat became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/horse-racing\/articles\/cly4plxwlkeo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">first black British female jump jockey<\/a> to ride in Britain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said it &#8220;felt amazing&#8221; to get her first win, in what was only her fourth race, riding Guchen for trainers Kim Bailey and Mat Nicholls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He gave me a great feeling all the way round and always felt like he had plenty left,&#8221; Aswat said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My dream is to ride as many winners as I can, and to just get on with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;The message I hopefully give out to other people is that if you want to do it, you definitely can and I will be following you every step of the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aswat completed the inaugural Riding A Dream Academy scholarship programme in 2021-22, after which she competed in the Magnolia Cup on the flat at Goodwood this year &#8211; following a spell at the British Racing School and took out her jockey license last autumn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/horse-racing\/articles\/cn4097xlzx4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aamilah Aswat has made history&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}