Yet another glass ceiling shattered by Rachael Blackmore
18 March 2022; Rachael Blackmore celebrates aboard A Plus Tard after winning the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup Chase during day four of the Cheltenham Racing Festival at Prestbury Park in Cheltenham, England. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
Rachael Blackmore really doesn’t like ceilings. Glass ceilings at any rate. After all, she has spent 12 months shattered them. First the Champion Hurdle. Then the Aintree Grand National. Then the Champion Hurdle once more.
And yesterday, she was at it again, giving 3-1 favourite A Plus Tard a peach of a ride to become the first female jockey to win the Festival highlight, the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup, before a record crowd of 73,875.
