Rachael Blackmore 1st female jockey to win Cheltenham Gold Cup
At the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, Rachael Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the prestigious event.
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At the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, Rachael Blackmore became the first female jockey to win the prestigious event.
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From the boos that rolled down from the enclosures as Tiger Roll was beaten on his final start on Wednesday to the songs that rang out for every winning favourite on Friday, the returning fans at Cheltenham provided the mood music for this year’s Festival and the effect was electrifying. After the lifeless longueurs between races in 2021, the celebrations and receptions made the Festival complete once again; the record four-day crowd of 280,627 proved beyond doubt that a year away had only increased the appetite for the unique Cheltenham experience.
Pioneering jockey Rachael Blackmore said she had fulfilled an «impossible dream» by becoming the first female rider to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
They say it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind but such is Rachael Blackmore’s quiet determination to be known first and foremost as just a jockey, rather than a female one, that it ought to have come as no surprise that she stuck to her guns and elected to ride A Plus Tard in this year’s Gold Cup despite being beaten into second place on him 12 months ago.
After the high of the Cheltenham Festival can win the Listed Boulton Group Midlands Grand National (An Open Handicap Chase) (3.35pm) for a second successive season at Uttoxeter on Saturday afternoon.
Rachael Blackmore became the first female rider to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup as she created more horse racing history.
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