Rupa Narpat Singh (aka..Rupa Singh) became the First Indian Woman Jockey to win the HH Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship at Sluzewiec Horse race track in Warsaw, Poland. Sunday- August 24th, 2014
The 48 kg – Rupa Singh participated against a strong field of 10 international jockeys to make her winning debut in the 13th and penultimate round.
It was her first race outside India on the back of an Arabian horse and without whips being used according to the rules. She rode Nicolas who covered the 1600 metres distance 1.56.60 seconds. Andrezej Wojtowicz was the trainer of the winning horse Nicholas.
The event was a part of the HH Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s ‘Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’.
The Chennai jockey Rupa Singh is the sister of Hyderabad jockey Ravinder Singh.