Who was the first female jockey to ride a winner at the Cheltenham Festival?

To avoid any confusion, the first female jockey to ride a winner against professional jockeys at the Cheltenham Festival was Gee Armytage, who partnered The Ellier, trained by Nigel Tinkler, to victory in the Kim Muir Challenge Cup – in the days before the name of Fulke Walwyn was added to the race title – in 1987. Indeed, that same year, the 21-year-old Armytage also won the Mildmayof Flete Challenge Cup – now the Brown Advisory & Merriebelle Stable Plate – on Gee-A, trained by Geoff Hubbard; she actually came agonisngly close to winning the leading jockey award, eventually losing out on countback to reigning champion jockey Peter Scudamore by virtue of having ridden fewer second- and third-placed horses. However, the first female jockey to ride a winner, of any description, at the Cheltenham Festival was amateur rider Caroline Robinson (née Beasley) who rode her own horse, Eliogarty, to win the Christie’s Foxhunter Chase – now the St. James’s Place Foxhunter Chase – in 1983.