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Rachael Blackmore is excited by the start of the Punchestown Festival, and she has five rides on the opening day.
Upping The Anti in the competitive Full Circle Series Final is the 34-year-old jockey's first ride in the day, with Slade Steel and Captain Guinness among her other horses.
The Betfair ambassador reveals some insight into her rides at Punchestown Festival on Tuesday.
Betfair ambassador Rachael Blackmore has five rides at Punchestown Festival on Tuesday
Punchestown Tuesday
3.05 – Upping The Anti
The Punchestown Festival starts on Tuesday and I’m really looking forward to it! It’s always a great meeting.
I ride Upping The Anti in the new Full Circle Series Final, and I hope that he can go well. It’s obviously a really competitive race, but he is in good form, and he should appreciate being back on nicer ground than the heavy ground that he encountered at Navan last time. His hurdles mark is far lower than his chase mark, and I hope that he can be competitive off it.
3.40 – Slade Steel
This is obviously a very good race, the first four from the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle are all here again.
It’s going to be a different type of race to the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, Punchestown is very different to Cheltenham, but Slade Steel came out on
