Cheltenham

He was not reared by British public academies — the privileged equivalent of private schools in America — but instead at a grammar in suburban Cheltenham, “a place famed for its Jane Austeny terraces,” he states in his new autobiography, “Homework,” though his alma mater stuck out like a jagged edge: It “was, by some distance, the most forbidding modernist building in town.”

Belmont School, a special education school in Cheltenham, has three groups of children enrolled on the programme.

Just two days ago, Hollie Doyle passed Hayley Turner's record for winners by a female jockey on the Flat, but Blackmore was one of only two professional women - the other being Isabel Williams - riding at this year's Cheltenham Festival.

The pair's victory with Honeysuckle in the horse's swansong in the Mares' Hurdle at Cheltenham in March 2023 sparked jubilant and emotional scenes.

Seventeen wins from 19 races, including four at the Cheltenham Festival.