Nicola Burns won’t be allowed to have a say in the forthcoming Irish presidential election as she doesn’t turn 18 until December \u2013 but Irish trainers have been giving the young woman from Delvin in County Westmeath their vote all season.<\/p>\n
Burns<\/a> has ridden for 55 different stables and that has helped her to what is already the fifth best season by a female Flat jockey in Ireland since the days of the pioneering Joanna Morgan in the late 1970s and 1980s. Four more winners would push her into third, with only Cathy Gannon ahead of her, by which time she would also have ridden out her 7lb claim.<\/p>\n Winner number 21 of the year and 27 of her career arrived at Galway the other day, a typically savvy ride on the Kieran Cotter-trained On A Session from stall one, which was even more impressive given she reported her saddle to have slipped afterwards. You would never have known.<\/p>\n Read the full story<\/p>\n Read award-winning journalism from the best writers in racing, with exclusive news, interviews, columns, investigations, stable tours and subscriber-only emails.<\/p>\n Subscribe to unlockRacing Post digital newspaper (worth over \u00a3100 per month)Award-winning journalism from the best writers in racingExpert tips from the likes of Tom Segal and Paul KealyReplays and results analysis from all UK and Irish racecoursesForm study tools including the Pro Card and Horse TrackerExtensive archive of statistics covering horses, trainers, jockeys, owners, pedigree and sales dataSubscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Already a subscriber?Log in<\/a><\/p>\n