RACHAEL BLACKMORE has given birth to a bouncing baby boy.<\/p>\n
The legendary former Irish jockey revealed the news on Instagram with a photo of the baby alongside revealing his name.<\/p>\n
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Rachael Blackmore has given birth<\/p>\n
Rachael Blackmore shared a first photo of the baby boy<\/p>\n
The caption on the post was a simple name reveal, stating: \u201cBowie Martin Hayes \ud83d\udc99.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fans flooded to the comments to offer congratulations to the Tipperary woman and her jockey husband Brian Hayes.<\/p>\n
Niamh De Brun, wife of Kilkenny hurling legend TJ Reid, commented: \u201cHe\u2019s adorable! \ud83d\udc99 Congratulations \ud83d\udc99.\u201d<\/p>\n
Niamh Butler gushed: \u201cCongratulations Rachael!! Bowie is such an amazing name!! Hope you are doing well\u2763\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n
GAA broadcaster Aisling O\u2019Reilly posted: \u201cAmazing Rachael \u2764\ufe0f Huge congratulations x.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doireann Garrihy hailed: \u201cMassive congratulations, what a beautiful baby \ud83e\udd79\u2764\ufe0f.\u201d<\/p>\n
And RTE star Marie Crowe said: \u201c\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d Huge congrats.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Grand National winner revealed that she and hubby Brian Hayes were expecting back in February.<\/p>\n
But asked back in March whether she felt more nervous for Cheltenham rides or about giving birth, Betfair Ambassador Blackmore said: \u201cI would definitely say riding.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cThe whole giving birth thing I haven\u2019t given an overly massive thought to yet, I think I should probably start doing that in a month or two!\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachael Blackmore is married to jockey Brian Hayes Credit: Alina O’Mahony<\/p>\n
She revealed she was pregnant back in February<\/p>\n
That reveal came just a month after she and Hayes got married in Cork.<\/p>\n
The history-maker shared photos from their nuptials that were taken by two separate wedding photographers.<\/p>\n
One photo, take by lifestyle and family photographer Alina O\u2019Mahony shows the two arm-in-arm and smiling ear-to-ear.<\/p>\n
And another black-and-white photo of the happy couple was snapped by photographer Laura Curran.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old hung up the saddle in May 2025 but has stuck around horse-racing through various ambassadorial roles.<\/p>\n
But speaking to Virgin Media during this year\u2019s Cheltenham Festival, she admitted to occasionally envying jockeys who are still in the game.<\/p>\n
She was asked if she felt jealous seeing the current crop of jockeys heading out on the track.<\/p>\n
And Blackmore conceded: \u201cYeah I would. I still miss riding, miss racing. Part of me does (miss it).<\/p>\n
\u201cBut no, I\u2019m very happy with my decision and I suppose there\u2019s never a good time really to retire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I made the right decision and it\u2019s great to be back here today as Head of Ladies Day with Cheltenham Racecourse so it\u2019s nice to have a reason and a purpose to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2022 she became the first female to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup on A Plus Tard, one of 18 winners at the Festival.<\/p>\n
She also\u00a0won the Champion Hurdle twice on the brilliant mare Honeysuckle\u00a0as well as the 2024 Champion Chase on Captain Guinness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RACHAEL BLACKMORE has given birth to a bouncing baby boy. The legendary former Irish jockey revealed the news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,8029,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-horse-racing","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}