Rachael Blackmore: Queen of Cheltenham will be badly missed by the sport she changed
MINE'S A GUINNESS: Jockey Rachael Blackmore celebrates aboard Captain Guinness after winning the Champion Chase at Cheltenham. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
Rachael Blackmore, the most successful female rider of all time, announced her retirement from race riding on Monday evening. A statement put out on social media brought down the curtain on the career of a lady whose success has been as great for the sport as it has been for the jockey herself.
From the time she rode her first winner, aboard the Shark Hanlon-trained Stowaway Pearl at Thurles on February 10, 2011, she was destined to be a success, but just how far she could go was to unfold in a stellar career which saw her smash through glass ceiling after glass ceiling.
