Hugo Palmer‘s Classic-winning yard in Newmarket has given champion apprentice Flat jockey Josephine Gordon a more prominent role.
Gordon, who was apprenticed to Stan Moore in Lambourn, has already had 12 winners from 44 rides so far from Palmer, but she is now set to become a ‘major part of the team’ in 2017.
Palmer told the Sun: “I’m going to pay her to work for me.
“Josephine will be riding out at Kremlin Cottage Stables every morning, in a similar way to how Pat Cosgrave does for William Haggas and Robert Havlin does for John Gosden.
“Skilled people make good horses. She will get lots of opportunities, and lots of my owners want to use her.
“She’s not going to be my stable jockey or what I would describe as number one, but she will be a major part of the team.
“Now she’s ridden out her claim this will make things more official.
“She’s fully aware that on big days someone like Pat Smullen could take over on a horse she has won on previously, but that might not always be the case.
“This gives her a chance to take her career to the next level.”
