Geraldine Rees News Today

Top Female Grand National Jockeys

The Grand National Festival 2024 features 21 races across 3 days in April at Aintree Racecourse. See our guide for major race info and more at Racenet!

Horse & Hound Trending: Barony Fort ridden by Charlotte Brew takes the water jump Horse & Hound is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. After rewriting the history books to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National in the race’s 182-year history, Rachael Blackmore announced: “I can’t believe I am Rachael Blackmore. Genuinely I feel like that little kid and I just can�...

To improve the performance of our website, show the most relevant news products and targeted advertising, we collect technical impersonal information about you, including through the tools of our partners. You can find a detailed description of how we use your data in our Privacy Policy. For a detailed description of the technologies, please see the Cookie and Automatic Logging Policy. By clicking on the "Accept & Close" button, you provide your explicit consent to the processing of your data t...

The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson Captain Jim Wilson, who held a trainer’s licence under both codes for over five decades has died peacefully, surrounded by his family at his home at Sollom, near Southport, Lancashire, on January 8, aged 94. I recall interviewing Capt. Jim and his daughter Geraldine Rees at his stables in Sollom, near Tarleton, Preston, Lancashire in the eighties on a cold, wintry morning in the eighties. It didn’t take long to ‘warm the cockles’ a...