Rachael Blackmore's career earnings listed on the world's highest-earning
Blackmore is currently eight winners behind Paul Townend, but the defending champion is currently sidelined due to a foot injury picked up at the Fairy house Easter meeting. As a result, Blackmore will have a good chance to cut into Townsends’ lead further in the coming days. But despite winning almost €7million in prize money in her career to date, research from OLBG shows the 31-year-old is way down the all-time prize money list, which is unsurprisingly dominated by international flat jockeys.
The Tipperary jockey was crowned the leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival after partnering six horses to success at the famous meeting in March before riding Minella Times to Grand National success just three weeks later. She could make more history by crowning the Irish champion jockey next week, with the National Hunt season ending on the final day of the Punchestown Festival. Incredibly, only one jockey based in Ireland or the UK cracked the top 50 on the list, with Frankie Dettori coming in 37th place with total estimated prize money of over €176million.
Legendary riders AP McCoy (€46m) and Ruby Walsh (€24) are also some way off the riches of some of the lesser-known jockeys on the list, which is topped by Japan's Yutaka Take, who has won a jaw-dropping estimate of €661m in prize money. Blackmore is well used to big-race success but admits the feeling of winning the National on the Henry de Bromhead-trained Minella Times was different to anything she has experienced before.
“It’s a fascinating race to be part of,” I’d ridden Minella Times before, and he’s a beautiful horse to ride who jumps really well, so I was looking forward to going over the National fences with him. “There’s a lot of anticipation in the build-up to the National. It’s so unique – 40 horses and 30 jumps. I suppose excitement was the overriding emotion on Saturday morning.
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