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Gordon Relishing New Role with Palmer Cont THURSDAY, 16 FEBRUARY, 2017 GORDON RELISHING NEW CHAMPIONSHIP STATUS IN ZABEEL MILE The G2 Zabeel Mile headlines a four graded-stake card at ROLE WITH PALMER Meydan on Thursday, and Championship (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) looks to make it back-to-back wins at the Group 2 level. The winner of the Listed National Day Cup over this trip in Abu Dhabi in December, the 6-year-old gelding was beaten a neck by Light The Lights (SAf) (Western Winter) going a furlong further in the Listed Singspiel S. on Jan. 5, and rebounded when dropped back to seven furlongs to win the G2 Al Fahidi Fort over Flash Fire (Ire) (Shamardal) and Noah From Goa (SAf) (Tiger Ridge) on Jan. 19. Mike de Kock saddles both Light The Lights and Noah From Goa, with stable rider Christophe Soumillon opting for the latter. ABoth mine are very well and should be competitive,@ said de Kock. ANoah From Goa needed his first run and has certainly improved from it.@ Cont. in Worldwide News p5 Champion apprentice Josephine Gordon | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY DOWN THE SHEDROW WITH MIKE STIDHAM Christie DeBernardis catches up with trainer Mike Stidham in By Tom Peacock the lastest installment of “Down the Shedrow.” Click or tap here Josephine Gordon will not be moving to France any time soon. to go straight to TDN America. Notwithstanding her disappointment over France-Galop's decision to propose handing female riders a 2kg (4.4 lbs) allowance in all races beneath Class 1, she is currently undergoing her initiation for a golden opportunity as a contracted jockey to Hugo Palmer's stable. This involved a permanent move to Newmarket, having been crowned last year's champion apprentice from her old base in Lambourn. "I feel like I've learned a lot just in the last three weeks since I've been there," she said. "In general Newmarket is a lot different in how it's run compared with Lambourn. Before I was riding out for one or two different trainers a morning but now I'm riding at Hugo's every day. He has got some really nice horses, I'm literally riding different ones every day so he can get my opinion on them. At least I'm going to know them when it comes to riding them on the track." Palmer, who still has the G1 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) in his care, was one of the key supporters as Gordon galloped through her claim, riding an exceptional 87 winners as she wrestled the apprentice title from Tom Marquand. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 16 FEBRUARY, 2017 her at present. "I'm only just starting off with Hugo, I've got to earn that," she said. "I wouldn't be any William Buick or Frankie Dettori, they've got years of experience on me. I hope one day I will get the chance to ride in Group 1 races--Hugo did put me on really nice horses last year in some big handicap races and that paid off." Gordon, like many of her young contemporaries, is a polite Gordon Relishing New Role With Palmer Cont. from p1 and helpful interviewee. However, given her view on the recent Progress was not always as speedy; it took a lifeline from France-Galop announcement, it is clear that she will not be shy trainer Stan Moore to snap a losing streak lasting nearly two to offer an opinion if necessary. years from her debut success in September 2013. "I think they've made it into a quite a big deal but it's not over The 23-year-old from the tiny North Devon village of here," she considered. "I think it is very sexist, I think it's Chittlehampton ended up donning the Godolphin colours and probably the biggest sexist thing they could have done riding in the Shergar Cup. considering the last however many years they've been saying it's "It was as if I woke up and went from having two rides a week not about sexism, girls don't get whatever. It is a bit of a to having five or six in a day," she said. "I thought 'oh, it's going disgrace but if it comes over here, I'll ride to the rules and take it to slow down a bit,' but it kept coming. It was just like, this is the as an advantage. If I ever go to France it works in my favour.@ jockey's life, it's what they do every day. It has happened very "For anybody, female or male, I think it's a privilege to ride out quickly but at the same time it's gone on very long when I think your claim,@ she added. AThere are so many people that don't about when I first got my licence and had my first rides." after working so hard, if you're good enough or not. I'm chuffed Sitting in the weighing room on a chilly all-weather evening to bits to have ridden out my claim and I don't want to then be before riding one for Palmer at Kempton feels a lifetime away handed back another claim, it's taking another step back. Even from the glamour days of Royal Ascot. As Gordon's position is though it may work in my favour I want to prove myself without likened to that of John Gosden's trusted foot-soldier Rab Havlin, it." she accepts that the biggest-race appointments will be beyond Cont. p3 #ThrowbackThursday: Yeats (Sadler's Wells) and Johnny Murtagh take the 2008 G1 Gold Cup at Ascot. | racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 16 FEBRUARY, 2017 grouped together by sire for easy reference, with sale prices shown in Guineas and Euros. The book is available to order from bettrendshop.co.uk for ,45. Gordon dismounts after riding a winner in July | racingfotos.com Gordon Relishing New Role With Palmer Cont. She believes the British set-up with dedicated jockey coaches is an initiative that might bring through more female riders on the other side of the English Channel. "Without [Classic-winning jockey-turned-coach] John Reid, I'd definitely probably still be a 7lb claimer," she said. "Jane Elliott is banging in the winners here, it's suddenly clicked for her, Hollie Doyle has only a few left until she claims 3lb, there's Georgia Cox, Lulu Stanford. If you think 10 years ago, there were no girls around." Gordon now finds some of those competitors coming to her for advice. "I'll always offer some help but I'm still learning myself aren't I? I'm still going into ask the boys, like George Baker and Adam Kirby, or Cathy [Gannon] and Hayley [Turner], if she's around." There has been scant time to bask in the glory of her new-found champion status, or to find her own home. "Property seems to go very quickly," she smiled. Any precious days off are spent catching up on admin. "Hugo wanted to kick on from the new year and I couldn't miss that opportunity. If you're still getting the rides and the winners JUST THE JUDGE FOALS DUBAWI COLT you've got to keep going," she said. "It was a huge achievement Dual Grade/Group 1 winner Just The Judge (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) but does life feel different? I suppose last year if my agent rang produced her first foal on Tuesday at Tweenhills Stud, a colt by up and said 'you're riding one for Al Shaqab', that was like Dubawi (Ire). The colt is bred by Qatar Racing and China Horse 'wow.' I'd say I'm more chilled out about it now." Club, who combined to purchase the mare for 4.5-million gns at Tattersalls December in 2014, when she was being offered to dissolve the partnership of Qatar Racing and the Sangster family. BLOODSTOCK SALES REVIEW TWO RELEASED A i50,000 yearling, Just The Judge was bought privately by that partnership after winning her first two starts at two, and Weatherbys has released its Bloodstock Sales Review 2016 she justified that decision when winning the following year=s G1 Part 2, which provides a wealth of information from the 2016 Irish 1000 Guineas after finishing second in the English version. bloodstock sales for industry professionals and bloodstock She won Woodbine=s GI EP Taylor S. the following year and enthusiasts. The book opens with a thorough overview of the picked up four more Group 1 placings during her career with major European sales, and features a definitive list of foals, trainer Charlie Hills. yearlings, mares and horses in and out of training sold in Europe, together with foals and yearlings sold in North America or Japan and sired by European-based stallions. All sales details are TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 16 FEBRUARY, 2017 CONDITIONS RESULT: 4th-WOL, ,19,000, 2-15, 4yo/up, 8f 141y (AWT), 1:48.55, st. THIRD TIME LUCKY (IRE) (g, 5, Clodovil {Ire}--Speckled Hen {Ire}, by Titus Livius {Fr}) Lifetime Record: 21-6-3-1, $242,740. O-The Musley Bank Partnership & Partner; B-Oghill House Stud (IRE); T-Richard Fahey. *i28,000 Wlg >12 GOFNOV; ,20,000 Ylg >13 DNPRM; 22,000gns 2yo >14 TATHIT; ,250,000 RNA HRA >15 GOFLON. ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Alhajjaj (GB), g, 4, Cacique (Ire)--Strawberry Morn (MSW-US, $501,719), by Travelling Victor.
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