The Grand National-winning trainer of 2009 might well have already equalled Jenny Pitman’s record of two wins had she not had the desperate luck to lose Nil Desperandum in the 2007 Midlands Grand National a month previously when he was trading at a low price in the ante-post market for the big race. The talented […]
Lucinda Russell became only the second Scottish-based trainer to win the Grand National as One For Arthur stormed to an impressive victory at Aintree on 8th April 2017, 38 years after the success of Rubstic in 1979. Scotland’s leading trainer, who has sent out over 600 winners from her family’s Arlary House Stables near Milnafort
Somerset-based Jenny Hembrow, already a point-to-point champion, secured a ride in two Grand Nationals – the first in 1979 and the second a year later. She recalls: “I was the second lady to ride in the Grand National. I was one of the first to race-ride at all because we weren’t allowed to ride until
The Grand National may seem a very macho race, and it’s certainly the most demanding of horse and rider in the entire calendar, but there is something about the drama and high emotion of Aintree which seems to draw the ladies. Indeed, for many years the course was run by one such: the remarkable Mirabel
On Saturday 10th April 2021 Rachael Blackmore rewrote the history books yet again to become the first female jockey to win the Randox Grand National as she and Minella Times gave owner JP McManus a second win in the iconic race. Minella Times had been backed into 11/1 for the world’s greatest steeplechase after Blackmore
The greatest steeplechase of them all, the Grand National is held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool. It is the race the world stops to watch. Each year more than 500 million people in more than 140 countries tune in to watch 40 competitors take on Aintree’s unique and world famous fences. For many, it
Next weekend’s 2021 Grand National will be the 173rd annual running of the event and the field provides the best opportunity for a female jockey to win for the first time. There had not been a single female jockey ride at the Grand National until Charlotte Brew broke the stigma in 1977. And even since
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Quilixios handed Rachael Blackmore her sixth victory of the week in the JCB Triumph Hurdle, which immediately prompted quotes of 12/1 for next year’s Unibet Champion Hurdle. His impressive performance also secured a fifth win of the 2021 Festival™ supporting WellChild for trainer Henry de Bromhead and a third for Cheveley Park Stud. Rachael Blackmore
Rachael Blackmore admitted she was “overwhelmed” after claiming her fifth winner of the week aboard Telmesomethinggirl in the Grade Two Parnell Properties Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle. The daughter of Stowaway came home five and a half lengths clear of stable companion Magic Daze to give owner Kenny Alexander a second win in three days, after Honeysuckle’s
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Win number three of the week for Denise Foster and Jack Kennedy as 3/1 favourite Mount Ida takes Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Handicap Chase (Sponsored by the JRL Group). Jockey Jack Kennedy admitted he thought his chances of victory on Mount Ida had “gone out of the window” after just four fences of the Fulke
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