Jonathan Powell catches up with woman jockey Josephine Gordon

Jonathan Powell
Josephine Gordon’s first winner on Chester’slittlegem at Bath in September, 2013, was followed by a drought of such lengthy proportions that she wondered if she had a future in racing.
It would be 21 months before the young girl from the West Country managed to win a race again and by then she was beset by so many doubts she was planning to move abroad in a last ditch attempt to revive her career.
Yet time spent by apprentices riding moderate horses in modest races in the early stages of...