Rachael Blackmore has been appointed as a Cheltenham Racecourse Ambassador, a new role designed to help attract more women to horse racing and reshape perceptions of the sport’s accessibility.
The initiative, launched
You don’t need the spotlight.
But you do deserve the recognition.
Because in every warm‑up ring, every prize‑giving photo, every well‑prepared horse… you’re there.
Not just as part
It had been three years since I last rode down a centre line.
Three years, two more children, and one very different version of me.
When I last competed in September 2022, Paige
Jamie Melham has been hailed as the world’s leading female jockey following her record-breaking Melbourne Cup victory aboard Half Yours, completing an unprecedented Cups double for the Australian rider.
Just two weeks
By EQUITAS Editorial Team
In a quietly groundbreaking study, Dr Cíara Losty, a sport and performance psychologist based at South East Technological University, Waterford, has brought to light one of the most under-examined