Rachael Blackmore

And I did that with Dark Horse 'cause I like to give myself, you know, to test myself a bit.

And the first part is called Imogen Duffy, and she is, um, loosely based on Rachael Blackmore.

Right.

As an, a, a...

But in the last two and a half years...

the supporters club has just grown from strength to strength and we're looking forward to our business summit Brendan which is on Friday the 6th of November in the Woodford Domino Hotel with some great speakers so we have Joe Smith I believe and Rachel Blackmore from the sports and

my good friend Joe

Gene Murta there who is the owner of Kingspan their revenue alone was over 10 billion which is unbelievable so to be in the room what are you

In general though, Anne-Marie, just kind of read this and talking about, you know, her own background in the game and how she's kind of got to where she's got to... you'd have to say it's a little bit disappointing still that we haven't got more female riders on the flat making an impact.

You could say the same over jumps in Ireland in one sense, kind of following Rachel Blackmore.

We still have a few riders that are, you know, very capable.

But, you know, overall, you look down through the rankings in Ireland this season, I'll give you a figure on where the top rider stands in just a moment and I might throw it to you and come back on that afterwards but we've got Orla Tynan with eight winners as an apprentice she's the highest female rider in the Irish table at the moment Siobhan Rutledge is in there on seven winners so far this season I believe Jessica O'Gorman on six Saif Tormey is on four Robin Dunahoo-Leahy on four Gabriella Hill has ridden a couple you know I'm I'm leaving out different names here.

But, yeah, it does seem like Safi Osmond is just an outlier.

I mean, this whole, I always hate the phrase at last ceiling because I don't think anything has necessarily been bashed or broken or everything, even though, you know, a good girl rider is as good as it can compete.

You know, Rachel Blackmore proved that umpteen times.

But, yeah, on the flat just never seems to be.

Right.

Rachel Blackmore.

Very good.

Yeah.

Okay.

In no particular order.

Katie Taylor, A.P. McCoy, Henry Sheflin, Sean Kelly, Brian O'Driscoll, Roy Keane, Steve Collins, Rory McIlroy, Sonia Sullivan, Paula Dunlop, George Best, Barry McGuigan, Ken Daugherty, Kelly Harrington, Ronnie Delaney, Rachel Blackmore, Paul McGrath, Patrick Harrington, Alex Higgins, and Joey Dunlop.

Okay.

But I would encourage anybody.

I mean, if you look at people like Rachel Blackmore, who's a big star over here, you know, she's the only woman to have won the Grand National, the Gold Cup race-wise.

She went to university.

I think, you know, if you can, try to keep your studies going because we all know this horse business is a very tough business.

Well, I think we're in a very unique, um, industry and sport that we have athletes who compete, male and female, at the exact same level at the highest standard.

Um, we've seen Bre- Rachel Blackmore do that.

We've seen the Rachel effect.

Um, we run a program in Race in Kildare for 12 to 16-year-olds, and year on year now, we have seen those numbers increase for females, and it's great to see.

Um, and obviously she's gone from strength to strength in the racing sphere and, you know, this really was her kind of crowning moment, but I'm sure it won't be, um, you know, I'm sure there are plenty more things for, coming her way.

Are we seeing a lot more women becoming jockeys, Liz? Is it because of people like you and, and, uh, Rachel Blackmore and-

Mm

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You know, to me, winning, a female winning a Classic was pretty much the last thing that needed to be ticked off.

Mm.

Our, you know, we've had female jump jockeys winning Grade Ones, uh, Rachel Blackmore winning a Gold Cup and a Grand National.

Mm.