RACHAEL BLACKMORE made history as the first EVER female winner of the Grand National.
Bookies feared a £15MILLION payout if the queen of the Cheltenham Festival won.
And she made them pay by surging clear on 11-1 shot Minella Times to win the world’s most famous contest convincingly at Aintree.
Not since February 1839, when the Grand National was first run, had a woman crossed the line in first.
But Irish rider Blackmore, 31, looked in total control over the four-mile course, never once seriously troubled as horses all around struggled over the famous fences.
Katie Walsh previously held the best record for a woman, when she finished third on Seabass in 2012.
But if anyone was to do it, it was Blackmore.
She made history just last month when becoming the first woman to be crowned top jockey at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival.
Henry de Bromhead, who trained winner Minella Times, said of trailblazing Blackmore: “I’m so lucky to have her. She’s brilliant.”
Blackmore said: “I just cannot believe it. He [the horse] was an absolutely sensational spin.
“What Henry de Bromhead does with these horses I don’t know but it’s – I’m so lucky to be riding him.
“I just cannot believe I have won the Grand National.”
'This is just unbelievable, just unbelievable'
Rachael Blackmore reacts to making history in the #GrandNational with Minella times!
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