The Irish rider rode the 11-1-shot horse, trained by Henry de Bromhead, at the famous race at England’s Aintree Racecourse to a victory by six-and-a-half lengths. “I don’t feel male or female right now. I don’t even feel human,” the 31-year-old told ITV Racing afterward. Previously, the closest any woman […]
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A stunning week for Rachael Blackmore at the Cheltenham Festival was completed on Friday as she became the first woman to secure the coveted top jockeys’ award. Six wins – including a history-making victory aboard Honeysuckle in the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday – have seen the 31-year-old rocket to the […]
“It’s always been the plan for me to be the trainer and Harry to be the jockey,” Dan Skelton says as he and his brother prepare for the Cheltenham Festival this week. Harry Skelton is the bookmakers’ favourite to become the champion jockey of jump racing this year while Dan […]
It is less than a month since Cheltenham’s International meeting in December offered a brief glimpse of a brighter future for racing, as 2,000 spectators watched the action from the stands and dared to hope that they might do so again at the Festival meeting in March. A much grimmer […]
Jockey Gina Andrews rushed to hospital after suffering a sickening fall before being kicked in the FACE by a horse at Cheltenham… but family confirm she is ‘moving and talking’ An amateur jockey has been taken to hospital after she was kicked in the face by a horse during a […]
A 14-1 winner has been disqualified because his jockey forgot to get himself weighed after the race, having apparently been distracted by an interview with ITV Racing. The channel’s cameras were making a rare visit to Taunton on Thursday when the 25-year-old Alex Thorne rode Twin Star to an unexpected […]
ITV Racing hopes to break fresh ground on Thursday afternoon when four races from Clonmel, including the Grade Two Clonmel Oil Chase, are due to lead the coverage on ITV4, and action from Irish tracks will continue to feature in the channel’s programming over the jumps season while restrictions to […]
It is a measure of how far and how fast Bryony Frost’s career has progressed that the anniversary of her breakthrough win on Present Man in the Badger Beers Chase at Wincanton in November 2017 has her looking back to a time when she was “still a proper kid”. “P […]