With only six race days before Cheltenham, staying injury free is a priority for Ireland’s top jockeys, although Rachael Blackmore can’t be accused of tip-toeing her way to the festival.
Blackmore’s two rides at Navan on Saturday are over fences and she has another pair of weekend spins at Wexford on Sunday.
The pioneering jockey is a general 7-2 second favourite to repeat her 2021 feat when half a dozen winners made her the first woman to land Cheltenham’s top rider award.
The superstar mare Honeysuckle again headlines her enviable book of mounts that also includes the Gold Cup favourite A Plus Tard.
Their stable companion Kavanaghs Corner is a long way short of that standard but at a venerable 13 years old fits the bill perfectly for a veterans handicap chase on Sat …
- March 5, 2022
