Some people make a noise, others make something happen. Lizzie Kelly can manage both.

Kelly became the first woman to ride a Grade One winner on Tea For Two in the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day 2015. She was wearing a jockeycam and the footage of her roaring home her horse in the final two furlongs has become something of a YouTube classic.

It may have been an octave or two higher but it was reminiscent of the days when men like Phil Tuck and Chris Grant would bellow such encouragement to send the decibel readings to “heavy industrial machinery” although her reaction on passing the post was more in keeping with a 23-year-old woman.

“When you’re in that sort of race you go for it,” she said. “Imagine if you got done on the line? So you give it you’re all.”

Now the pair will be giving it their all in the Timico Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday.

Kelly, who is the stable jockey for her stepfather, Nick Williams, who trains Tea For Two, became a hit with the media after achieving something that had thus far eluded the likes of Nina Carberry and Katie Walsh but she does not perceive herself as racing’s answer to Emmeline Pankhurst. “It comes with the territory,” she said. “We’re sportspeople and media is always there. You don’t take anything they say too literally – and you never believe your own marketing.”

That said she has making a name for herself since. Six weeks after the Kauto Star she rode Agrapart to win the Betfair Hurdle at Newbury, a race that could best be described as two-mile a sprint with eight flights of hurdles thrown in just to make it interesting. “The jockey makes more of an impact in a race like that,” she said. “I was very pleased with the ride I gave the horse and it probably gave me a little bit more credibility as a jockey.”

A double at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day did no harm to her credibility that has been keeping pace with Tea For Two’s handicap rating after he finished a close fourth to Thistlecrack in the King George VI Chase.

They were favourites for the Betbright Handicap Chase at Kempton last month before the decision was taken to aim for the stars.

The horse is owned by Kelly’s mother, Jane, but this is not a family day out. “My parents are very shrewd, they wouldn’t have entered him if they didn’t think he was capable of running very well.

“There’s lots of three-mile handicap chases, but Gold Cup opportunities don’t come round very often.” Kelly said. “You can’t say ‘Oh, we’ll go for that next year’. Look at Thistlecrack – one minute he’s favourite, next minute he’s got a leg [injury]. ”

Linda Sheedy became the first woman to ride in the Gold Cup on 500-1 shot Foxbury, who was pulled up behind Burrough Hill Lad in 1984. Tea For Two may be 50-1 but finished only half a length behind Cue Card, one of the favourites for the Gold Cup, when they ran against each other in the King George.

Neither the proximity in the formbook nor the disparity in the betting is lost on Kelly, who said: “If he was trained by a top-ten trainer and ridden by a top-ten jockey I think the betting would be very different.

“He beat Native River when he won the Grade One at Kempton, so there’s reasons to give him a good chance.”

On that form Kelly could find herself in with a shout.