![]() As a result of her prolonged recovery period-including a further fall where she fractured her wrist-Payne was granted a three-month extension to her apprenticeship to allow her time to ride out her claim. ![]() In March 2004, Payne fell heavily at a race in Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne, fracturing her skull and bruising her brain. She won in her first race at Ballarat, aboard Reigning-a horse trained by her father. She attended Our Lady Help of Christians primary school and Loreto College, Ballarat, and entered racing aged 15, the eighth of the Payne children to do so. Payne dreamt of being a winning jockey as a child, and, aged seven, told friends she would one day win the Melbourne Cup. Her mother Mary died in a motor vehicle crash when Payne was six months old, leaving her father Paddy to raise their ten children as a single father. The youngest child of ten of Paddy and Mary Payne, Payne grew up on a farm at Miners Rest, a locality near Ballarat in central Victoria, Australia. She won the 2015 Melbourne Cup, riding Prince of Penzance, and is the first and only female jockey to win the event. Payne OAM (born 29 September 1985) is an Australian jockey. The Don Award (2017), Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards. ![]() ![]()
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