{"id":588554,"date":"2026-08-10T03:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T03:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:58:16","slug":"rachael-blackmore-opens-up-about-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/588554\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Blackmore opens up about motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rachael Blackmore has opened up about motherhood &#8211; saying she is still &#8216;finding my feet&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The retired champion jockey welcomed her first son, <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2026\/06\/06\/entertainment\/rachael-blackmore-baby-horses\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowie<\/a>, with fellow jockey Brian Hayes at the end of May but waited until the first week of June to announce the couple&#8217;s happy news on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the weekend, Rachael attended the Curragh Racecourse in Kildare and opened up about how her newborn son is already sleeping through the night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rach4.jpg\" alt=\"Rachael Blackmore with her son, Bowie. Pic: Henry de Bromhead Racing \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2153060\"  \/>Rachael Blackmore with her son, Bowie. Pic: Henry de Bromhead Racing \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking for the first time since becoming a mother, Rachael told Racing TV: &#8216;He&#8217;s great. Yeah, he&#8217;s sleeping through the night, which we&#8217;re very, very thankful for both Brian and I. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;My friends are all very jealous, but yeah, no, he&#8217;s doing really well, and yeah, we&#8217;re very lucky.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2026\/06\/06\/entertainment\/celebrity\/rachel-blackmore-introduces-new-son\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael<\/a> attended the Curragh Racecourse at the weekend and opened up about what her new schedule looks like these days since her retirement from the sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I&#8217;m very lucky that I do have people like FBD hotels and resorts like still supporting me, and yeah, I&#8217;m finding my feet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rach3.jpg\" alt=\"Rachael Blackmore with her son, Bowie. Pic: Henry de Bromhead Racing \/ Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2153059\"  \/>Rachael Blackmore with her son, Bowie. Pic: Henry de Bromhead Racing \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;I still don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do when I grow up, but I&#8217;m pretty busy at the moment looking after Bowie, so that&#8217;ll keep me busy for next while,&#8217; the 37-year-old added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rachael Blackmore has opened up about motherhood &#8211; saying she is still &#8216;finding my feet&#8217;. The retired champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-588554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588554","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=588554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}