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Brett Doyle

British jockey (1972~)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ4962149 ↗
Source-derived summary

Brett Doyle (born 30 August 1972 in Newmarket, England) is a flat race jockey. Doyle has ridden 147 winners in Hong Kong across a number of stints. He rode 18 winners in the 2010/11 season, during which his best partnership was with Thumbs Up, winning the HKG3 Mission Hills Sha Tin Trophy in October 2010.

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“Brett Doyle” enters the record as british jockey (1972~). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brett, Doyle and British can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-08-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brett, Doyle and British.
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“Brett Doyle” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Brett, Doyle and British provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4962149. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Brett Doyle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.