‘It is fairly obvious there is a decline’: Ruby Walsh insists he ‘can’t believe’ the shortage of British-trained horses in this year’s Grand National with only a QUARTER of the Aintree lineup set to be homegrown Around 10 of the 40-strong line-up at Aintree are expected to be British-trained The […]
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Rachael Blackmore was momentarily stuck for words as she considered the question, which had been posed by ITV’s Gabriel Clarke. It was during an interview that was aired on the first day of the 2020 Cheltenham Festival. ‘Do you want to be a star?’ Clarke asked. Blackmore, with a faint […]
Not since Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry in the 13th century has any woman on horseback caused quite such a public stir. Her modesty covered by the green and gold silks of JP McManus, Rachael Blackmore wrote arguably the most colourful chapter yet in the storied […]
After an extraordinary week at Cheltenham last month, when she finished the four days as the leading rider for the first time, there is something very unusual about Rachael Blackmore and it has nothing to do with her gender. It goes beyond the distinction between jumping and Flat racing too. […]
There will come a time when it will be just jockeys clearing the last at Cheltenham, when we will no longer be able to distinguish a Bryony or a Rachael from a Jack or Paul. That time is not yet. It is still relatively new to the sport, this equality […]
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 […]
10.51am GMT10:51 Willie Mullins speaks: “I think it’s an extraordinary team of horses we have coming over here,” he tells Alice Plunkett on the Opening Show. “It you’d said to me last October that we were going to have a team like this, I’d have said you were mental. It’s […]
“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 […]