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‘She smashed barriers’: Rachael Blackmore tributes flood in after ground-breaking jockey retires

‘She smashed barriers’: Rachael Blackmore tributes flood in after ground-breaking jockey retires

Blackmore won both the Grand National and Gold Cup in a career that included 575 wins across 4,566 races

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