Rachael Blackmore is one of Ireland's premier riders and is setting her sights on more victories at this week's Cheltenham Festival. The superstar jockey from County Tipperary, who rode her first winner as an amateur in 2011, quickly rose through the ranks to become one of Ireland's top riders and a trailblazer for the sport. Her successful partnership with trainer Henry de Bromhead led to her appointment as stable jockey, and triumphs soon followed. In 2021, she made history by becoming the first female rider to win the Grand National aboard Minella Times and claim the title of leading Festival jockey. She continued to break barriers in 2022 when she won the Cheltenham Gold Cup with A Plus Tard. We take a closer look at Blackmore's life off the track, including her Festival successes, net worth, career earnings, and her relationship with fellow jockey Brian Hayes. What is Rachael Blackmore's net worth? While Blackmore's exact net worth is unknown, she has reportedly earned around €11million in prize money throughout her illustrious career, according to At The Races. Jockeys typically receive about ten per cent of the win prize, as per the PJA. A significant portion of these winnings were earned in Ireland – a precise €7m – where she triumphed in three Irish Champion Hurdles from 2021 to 2023 on the celebrated mare, Honeysuckle. Blackmore rode A Plus Tard to a whopping €420,000 in prize money when winning Friday's blue riband event in 2022, and her latest windfall came just a year ago when Captain Guinness achieved Champion Chase glory, bagging €270k in the process, reports the Mirror. What has Rachael Blackmore won at Cheltenham Festival? The 35-year-old has ridden 16 Festival winners while claiming three of the four feature races - the Stayers' Hurdle being the only one that has so far eluded her. Six of these victories occurred in 2021, which saw her crowned as the meeting's leading jockey. Her first taste of Grade 1 victory in the Cotswolds came in 2019 when Minella Indo won the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle. Besides those mounts already mentioned, Blackmore won the Champion Bumper in 2021 with Sir Gerhard, while also riding Quilixios to the Triumph Hurdle, Allaho to the Ryanair Chase, Bob Olinger to the Baring Bingham, and Telmesomethinggirl to the Mares' Novices Hurdle that year. A year ago, she won the Supreme Novices' Hurdle for the first time aboard Slade Steel. It is often the biggest stages that bring out the best in Blackmore, and she has reiterated that pressure, for her, often does make diamonds. Betfair ambassador Blackmore expressed her fondness for the Festival, saying: "It's just been a very lucky place for me. I've got to ride some very good horses there, and you know Henry de Bromhead, his horses seem to go there and run fantastic races, and you're just very lucky when you get to be on their back. "I think riding, every jockey wants to ride on the big stage, in the big races, on the big days, and Cheltenham is our, it's been said before, it's our Olympics, and that's where every jockey starting off wants to get to, so I'm very lucky that I get to ride horses in Cheltenham and I feel like I'm in a very lucky position to get to do that. "Pressure is part of it, but you want to be under pressure because you know if you're under pressure, it means your horse has a very good chance, and they're the horses you want to be riding, so it is pressure, but you know you just have to deal with it and almost be grateful for it." Who is Rachael Blackmore dating? As for Blackmore's personal life, she and fellow jockey Hayes have been together for quite some time. Their relationship often sees them setting aside their personal lives when racing commences. Hayes, hailing from County Cork, gained recognition with his first festival winner in 2023 aboard Impervious in the Mares' Chase. Known for securing numerous opportunities to ride for Emmet Mullins over the years, he now frequently finds himself atop horses trained by reigning British champion Willie Mullins. On the first day of this year's festival, Hayes is set to ride Closutton outsider Funiculi Funicula in the Michael O'Sullivan Supreme Novices' Hurdle. Meanwhile, Blackmore will be taking the reins of one of the favourites, De Bromhead's seven-year-old Workahead. The couple will go head-to-head again later when Hayes mounts six-year-old mare Gala Marceau, trained by Mullins, in the Mares' Hurdle, with Blackmore on July Flower. While competition is fierce on the track, the pair do bunk together off it when they travel to Gloucestershire: "We [Blackmore, Hayes, and fellow jockey Patrick Mullins] stay together in Cheltenham every year," Blackmore revealed. "We get a house. We usually go, and come over on Sunday night. So we're there on Monday to ride out, and that's a lovely day because you can kind of get settled in and walk the track - get your racing bag down to the weigh room and just get ready for the week ahead. We have a house very close so it's very convenient." To hear more from Betfair Ambassadors Paul Nicholls and Rachael Blackmore watch them on Betfair's Racing… Only Bettor podcast Cheltenham preview special now here.