I think I would need more than an apparent entente cordiale between Ginger McCain and one longstanding set of friends before being convinced that the former was more greatly receptive to the idea of female Grand National jockeys (as a whole) in his autumn years.
His passing in late 2011, almost entirely before the rise of Rachael Blackmore had started (that was just her second season operating in Irish jumps races, having ridden just four times in the first), leaves us no wiser, of course.
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