Rachael Blackmore returns to action at Fairyhouse on Tuesday after Grand National win
The Tipperary jockey partnered Minella Times to victory at Aintree on Saturday
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Rachael Blackmore celebrates winning the Grand National on Minella Times (Image: Getty Images)
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Rachael Blackmore will return to action at Fairyhouse on Tuesday following her Grand National win on Minella Times.
The Tipperary jockey partnered the eight-year-old to victory at Aintree on Saturday to become the first woman to win the famous race.
Blackmore is set to ride in six races at the Meath venue, starting with Fangio De Vassy in the 3.40 contest for Henry de Bromhead, who trained Minella Times to Grand National success.
She will also partner Raya Time (5.45) and Somptueux (6.15) for the Waterford handler, with her other mounts coming on Barney Stinson (4.15) for Mouse Morris, Thomas Mullins' Rock Chica (5.15) and An Marcach (6.45) for Des Donovan.
Blackmore is currently ten wins behind Paul Townend in the race to be crowned champion jockey, but has a chance to catch up with him as the defending champion is currently sidelined with a foot injury suffered at Fairyhouse's Irish Grand National meeting.
Blackmore said on Monday that her historic win still hasn't sunk in.
She told Morning Ireland on RTE Radio 1: "I don't know if it will for a while. It's just incredible. It really, really is.
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"Everyone grows up, every child with a pony grows up thinking about the Grand National. It's the first race that captured my imagination as a child. You dream about it. You dream about riding in the race and to actually go and win it takes it to a whole new level.
"It was just an incredible feeling. I don't know if my English vocabulary even has the words to describe it."
On what she was thinking during the race, Blackmore added: "I was hoping that Jett would come back to us and thankfully he did.
"When he was coming back on the turn in, my horse grabbed the bit again and was happy to go forward but it is a very long run-in from the back of the last in Aintree so you are trying to just save a bit and not fully commit until you get to the rail and the winning line is in sight.
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"I was able to hear the commentator say, just as we came back onto the racecourse properly, that I was four lengths in front, I knew my horse was going to keep galloping to the line and you kind of start believing it then and it's just absolute elation.
"It's so massive. It's such a special race.
"I finished 10th in it last year and I got a kick out of that. There's no other race that you'll finish placed in and get a buzz of it. The Grand National, that's why it's so special because that happens."
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