Boyce, 37, is a Maryland native who began her riding career in 2009. It was 2010, though, when she really began to get traction, winning a career-best 129 races from 759 starters and generating more than $2 million in purse earnings.

Boyce also won two meet titles at Laurel that year and was the leading rider in Maryland with 106 in-state victories. She won 119 races with the bug in ’09-’10 and ended up as runner-up for the Eclipse Award as outstanding apprentice.

Boyce has won five graded stakes in her career. Her first came aboard Nellie Cashman in the 2013 Virginia Oaks (G3), and her most recent came in the 2018 BWI Turf Cup (G3) aboard Doctor Mounty. Her five graded wins, all in Grade 3 races, have come aboard five different horses.

That 2013 season, when she earned her first graded win, was also her most lucrative racing year. She won 10 stakes that year, four of them aboard millionaire Eighttofasttocatch, and her mounts earned just shy of $3.5 million.

Boyce has remained a steady presence on the Maryland racing scene in recent years. In 2017 she was the regular pilot aboard Crabcakes as that runner won three stakes, including back-to-back runnings of the Maryland Million Distaff, and placed in three others. In 2021 she won 54 races with $2.1 million in purse earnings, the 10^th time her horses have hit the $2 million earnings mark.

So far in 2022, she has won twice from 22 starters.