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Rachael Blackmore back to the day job at Fairyhouse on Tuesday as she chases Paul Townend in jockeys’ championship

, Rachael Blackmore back to the day job at Fairyhouse on Tuesday as she chases Paul Townend in jockeys’ championship

HISTORY maker Rachael Blackmore will get back to the day job with six rides at Fairyhouse on Tuesday.

The Grand National winner is set to return to action for the first time since she guided 11-1 shot Minella Times to a famous victory at Aintree on Saturday.

Blackmore is 5-4 second favourite to be crowned champion jockey in Ireland

Blackmore, who has received global media attention in recent days, is 10 winners behind Paul Townend in the Irish jump jockeys’ championship.

The title race runs until the end of the Punchestown Festival, which concludes on May 1.

Blackmore has some strong chances this afternoon, and she rides the hot favourite Fangio De Vassy in the opening race at 3.45.

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Her longest-priced runner on the card is 7-1 shot Rock Chica in the 5.15, while she also partners 9-4 and 3-1 favourites Raya Time (5.45) and Somptueux (6.15).

Reigning champ and current jockeys’ title leader Townend is currently sidelined through injury, having been forced to miss the Grand National meeting after a heavy fall on April 4.

It isn’t clear when he will be able to resume race-riding, so Blackmore will look to make inroads while her rival is on the treatment table.

Townend is currently the 4-7 favourite for defend his crown with Betfair, which Blackmore a 5-4 shot.

On Monday evening, Blackmore, who was also leading jockey at the Cheltenham Festival, described her emotions of winning the Grand National to RTE Radio 1.

She said: “I heard the commentator say I was four lengths in front as we came back on to the racecourse properly.

“I knew Minella Times would gallop to the line and you start believing it then. It’s absolute elation, it really is. It’s just so massive, such a special race.

“I don’t think it’s all sunk in yet and it probably won’t for a while. It’s just incredible.

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Rachael Blackmore and Minella Times won Saturday’s Grand National

“Every child with a pony growing up thinks about the Grand National, it’s the first race that captured my imagination. It’s incredible and I don’t know if I have the words to describe it.

“My first feeling when winning at Cheltenham is more of relief because there’s more pressure attached.

“Going into the Grand National, you don’t feel the same pressure and people don’t have the same expectation because there’s 40 horses, more than four miles to run and anything can happen.

“You need so much luck and so much to go your way. You don’t have that pressure going in so you don’t have the same instinctive relief when you cross the line.”

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