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Trailblazing female jockey retires from horse racing
Jockey Rachael Blackmore, the first female rider to win the Grand National, has announced she is retiring from horse racing.
The trailblazing rider, 35, also won 18 races at the Cheltenham Festival, and bowed out with victory aboard Ma Belle Etoile at her final meeting at Cork on Saturday. Blackmore made history in 2021 when she rode Minella Times to Grand National glory, becoming the first woman to win the world's greatest steeplechase at Aintree in the then 182-year history of the race.
The same year, she became the first female jockey to win the Cheltenham Champion Hurdle aboard Honeysuckle and the following year she secured another first when steering A Plus Tard to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup. In a statement posted on social media, she said "the time is right.
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