Cheltenham Festival: Watch Rachael Blackmore's exclusive preview this International Women's Day

• Watch podcast from 11am this International Women's Day (Friday March 8)

• Blackmore talks Cheltenham 2024 runners

• Live across X/Twitter, YouTube, Facebook

• Betfair doubling donation from £5k to £10k into Serial Winners Fund during Cheltenham - read more here!

• Non-runner money back for every Cheltenham race

Watch Rachael Blackmore's Cheltenham Festival 2024 rides preview live with Betfair at 11am today (Friday March 8).

Released on International Women's Day, this exclusive preview celebrates our trailblazing ambassador, who became the first woman to ride a Gold Cup winner.

Hosted by Vanessa Ryle, Rachael sits alongside Karen McMahon our Racing Director who shares the insights into what trends Betfair are seeing in the 2024 Cheltenham market, with some surprising Gold Cup contender support.

The Betfair ambassador made history by becoming the first woman to be the leading jockey at the Festival in 2021, won the Gold Cup the following year and enjoyed more success at Prestbury Park in 2023.

She is aiming for more winners in 2024 and the four day Festival (12-15 March) is the perfect opportunity for her to add to her Serial Winners Fund.

You can watch the show right here in this story as well as live across X/Twitter, YouTube, Facebook.

Essential viewing for Cheltenham bettors

Rachael knows what it takes to win at Cheltenham and her insight into her 2024 rides will be essential viewing for punters.

With just days to go before the National Hunt racing world heads to Prestbury Park this is the perfect way to prepare for the greatest show on turf.

This is part of a series of Betfair Cheltenham Festival 2024 preview podcasts that will be broadcasting live the week before the greatest show on turf begins.

You can also read Cheltenham previews in the build-up, get daily tips from our experts and insight from our ambassadors Paul Nicholls and Rachael Blackmore during the four day Festival on Betting.Betfair.com.

Betfair doubling Serial Winners Fund winner donation to £10k

Betfair are proud to announce that we will be doubling our donations to Rachael Blackmore's Serial Winners Fund from £5k to £10k for any winner she rides at next week's Cheltenham Festival.

Having already got the pot to £180k since Betfair Chase Day, Rachael now has the opportunity to increase that figure at a quicker rate over the special four days at Prestbury Park.

The money from the Serial Winners Fund will go towards injured jockey charities in the UK and Ireland. Managing to ride a winner at the Cheltenham Festival is one of the most special moments in a jockey's career, and for such a special moment we feel it deserves to be recognised and that is the basis behind the doubling of the winner donation.

During her exclusive Cheltenham Festival Preview this week Rachael called out Betfair suggested we should be doubling the contributions for every winner at the 2024 Cheltenham Festival. And when Rachael asks she gets.

The 30 minute special preview aired today across Betfair's digital platforms coinciding with International Women's Day and we thought there was no better occasion to announce this winner doubling initiative.

Rachael said: "During the preview I called on Betfair to raise their game for Cheltenham and double the amount donated to the Serial Winners Fund if I'm lucky enough to get into the winners enclosure.

"I may have caught them slightly off guard but I knew they would get on board and we got the thumbs up. I'm fully focused on next week and looking forward to getting over there now."

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