Rachael Blackmore draws blank at Tramore in race to catch Paul Townend
Game Of War parts company with Rachael Blackmore as Mark Walsh comes off Kitten Rock at the last during the Green Acre Marketing Handicap Steeplechase at Tramore. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
Rachael Blackmore remained eight winners behind Paul Townend in the race for the jockeys’ championship after drawing a blank at Tramore on Sunday, where she missed her final mount of the day following a heavy fall.
With Townend currently on the sidelines due to a foot injury picked up at the Fairyhouse Easter meeting, Blackmore would have been hoping to make more of an inroad into the reigning champion’s lead since her Aintree heroics on Minella Times. But in that time the deficit has only been cut by two.
