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Josephine Gordon, who turns 27 in May, 2020, had ridden just one winner when she became apprenticed to Stan Moore, but rode her second winner in June, 2015 and by the end of that season had increased her winning tally to 16, including 9-81 for the Lambourn trainer. Thereafter, her riding career flourished, with the 2016 season yielding 87 winners in total, including 50 between April 30 and October 15, which was sufficient to make her champion apprentice. Indeed, she became just the third female jockey to win the apprentices’ title, after Amy Ryan in 2011 and Hayley Turner in 2005.

The following season, Gordon left Stan Moore to become stable jockey to Hugo Palmer in Newmarket and, initially, the move proved very fruitful indeed. Gordon rode her first Pattern race winner, Koropick, in the Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle for her new employer on July 1, 2017 and brought up a hundred winners for the season when partnering Thunderbolt Rocks, also trained by Palmer, to victory at Wolverhampton on November 25. In so doing, she became only the second female jockey, after Hayley Turner in 2008, to ride a hundred winners in a calendar year. She was on a winning streak of the like only seen by those winning on the best casinos online. All told, Gordon racked up 106 winners, including 33 for Palmer.

It would be fair to say that Josephine Gordon has found winners much more difficult to come by since the end of the 2017 season. Notwithstanding a hand injury that put her out of action for a month, she rode just 56 winners, including 24 for Hugo Palmer, which led to her relinquishing her role as stable jockey to ride freelance in 2019. That year, Gordon rode just 38 winners and in 2020, so far, she has yet to visit the winners’ enclosure; in fact, at the time of writing, she is enduring a ‘cold’ spell lasting 76 days and 54 rides.

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