{"id":301882,"date":"2026-02-17T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301882\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:50:13","slug":"rachael-blackmores-husband-injured-after-baby-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301882\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Blackmore&#8217;s husband injured after baby announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael Blackmore&#8217;s husband Brian Hayes suffered a heavy fall just days after the couple announced they are expecting their first baby together.<\/p>\n<p>The couple were soaking up a special few days after announcing their happy news, when Brian, who is also a pro jockey, had an accident.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the Cork man suffered a heavy fall whilst racing in England over the weekend. Brian had flown over to the UK to compete at Haydock. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rach2.jpg\" alt=\"Rachael Blackmore and Brian Hayes are married. Pic: Laura J Curran Photography\" class=\"wp-image-2105427\"  \/>Rachael Blackmore and Brian Hayes are married. Pic: Laura J Curran Photography<\/p>\n<p>He looked set to win the race on Saturday with the Willie Mullins-trained horse, Chart Topper, but suffered a fall at the second last hurdle. Luckily, Brian escaped the incident without getting hurt. <\/p>\n<p>An insider told EVOKE that the jockey was uninjured and was back on the saddle again just a day later, having travelled home to Ireland to ride in two races at Punchestown Racecourse in Kildare on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Brian-Hayes-Rachael-Blackmore-3.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Hayes and Rachael Blackmore\" class=\"wp-image-1954616\"  \/>Brian Hayes and Rachael Blackmore. Pic: Rachael Blackmore\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Rachael and Brian have long remained tight-lipped about their private life. The couple <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/01\/18\/entertainment\/brian-hayes-rachael-blackmore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tied the knot in a secret wedding<\/a> in January. <\/p>\n<p>While fans didn&#8217;t get to see shots of the couple in their wedding day attire until later, viewers were thrilled when Brian confirmed to Racing TV that he married\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/12\/11\/news\/sport\/rachael-blackmore-i-do\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael<\/a> in his hometown of Cork. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_rachaelhayesPNG.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Rachael Blackmore\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2097754\"  \/>Pic: Rachael Blackmore\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>He said at the time: &#8216;Oh, yeah, I got married last&#8230;10 days ago. Myself and Rachael and I got married, so yeah, off the market.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was a lovely day. Yeah, we got married on Friday at home in Rosscarbery in my home place. Went up to Cavan on a Monday, and a big party up there with all our friends and family.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was nice to get married finally,&#8217; before adding that the honeymoon would be down the line.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/rac_40d846.jpg\" alt=\"Rachael Blackmore is expecting. Pic: Rachael Blackmore \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2107670\"  \/>Rachael Blackmore is expecting. Pic: Rachael Blackmore \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were racing two days later. But yeah, we might go somewhere in June there. We have a month off in June. So we might do something.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The couple surprised fans again when they announced that they are expecting their first baby last week, with Rachael sharing a shot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/blackmorerachael\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a> with a box containing a buggy in the boot of her car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Boot contents looking a little bit different now,&#8217; Rachael simply wrote alongside a picture of her car, a Volvo XC60.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachael Blackmore&#8217;s husband Brian Hayes suffered a heavy fall just days after the couple announced they are expecting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-301882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}