Congratulations to her, its a tremendous achievement. The only small caveat I would say is because the Leger clashes with Irish Champions weekend, it doesn’t necessarily pit the best against the best from the jockeys but she’s still gone and beaten another JOB horse ridden by Billy Loughnane and this is not me saying she doesn’t belong in that company, more that she probably wouldn’t have got the opportunity if they were on different weekends. That’s a theme throughout the Leger in recent years too, Sean Levey won one for Aidan O’Brien and Tom Marquand has won two, one each for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien. None of these would have happened if they were different weekends.
Part of why I bring this up is because I’ve seen a lot of comparisons with what Rachel Blackmore did in the jumps and I think the two are nothing like each other. Rachel was chosen by a big yard to be their main jockey and she won pretty much every big race going over the jumps at the pinnacle of the sport. The Leger has become second fiddle for all the big yards on the flat vs Irish Champions Weekend. Hopefully one day she gets a chance to be the main jockey for a big yard like Rachel did. She did her chances no harm yesterday when given her chance.