HOLLIE Doyle’s shortlisting for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year Award is a major win for the sport of racing, as well as being a truly deserving acknowledgement of the rider’s climb to prominence in recent years. While 2020 might be a year to be erased from many people’s memories, it is one that will forever remain etched in Hollie’s.

She is one of six luminaries named for the prestigious award, won a decade ago by Sir Anthony McCoy.