Jessica Harrington's daughter has given a positive update as the legendary trainer continues to battle breast cancer.
The Kildare handler revealed last month that she was receiving treatment, adding that "sees light at the end of the tunnel".
The trainer's daughter Kate was at Aintree last Saturday and told ITV ahead of the Grand National that the 76-year-old is "doing very well at home."
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She said: "Mum is doing great. She's watching it at home. I've had a couple of phone calls there from her in the last ten minutes just with the bit of delay (to the race because of protesters), but she's doing very well at home."
Harrington ran the aptly named Lifetime Ambition in the marathon contest, a race that has been her lifetime ambition to win.
The eight-year-old was in a prominent position and looked to be going well when he was badly hampered by a loose horse and unseated at the 9th fence, which was Valentine's.
Harrington opened up on being diagnosed with cancer ahead of the Cheltenham Festival, telling Katie Hannon on RTE's Up Front podcast: "I'm going through cancer treatment at the moment. I definitely did a bit of crying when I got the diagnosis and then what I had to go through. I definitely did a bit of crying over it."
But the trainer said she feels very lucky to live in the countryside, adding: "I've been very lucky and I'm very lucky to live in the country. Every morning I get to get up and look at beautiful horses and watch them work so I've been doing that.
"I'm feeling the cold a bit. I haven't been racing because I don't want to go mixing with a lot of people because of getting infections."
Harrington added that she doesn't have many dark days because "you don't need dark days".
She explained: "Having dark days with cancer, cancer might feed on that. That's my attitude so therefore we can't have dark days but if you do have a bit of a blip, you pull yourself up and carry on because there's an awful lot of other people worse than you are."
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