Jockey Josephine Gordon makes history with 100 winners this year
Gordon became only the second female jockey to reach the landmark with a winner at Wolverhampton on Saturday evening
BRILLIANT Josephine Gordon became only the second female jockey to reach 100 winners in a calendar year with Thunderbolt Rocks at Wolverhampton on Saturday.
Gordon capped off a fantastic breakthrough year with Hugo Palmer's 10-1 shot as she reached the 100 winners mark.
She has made huge gains during the 2017 Flat season and secured a first Group-race winner when the Palmer-trained Koropick landed the Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle in June.
The 2016 champion apprentice also won a second Group 3 in September when Apphia did the business in the Nayef Stakes at Newmarket.
Gordon is just the second female rider to have reached 100 winners in Britain in a calendar year, following in the footprints of Hayley Turner.
The 24-year-old jockey said: "It's huge for me. I set myself a few targets at the start of the year and to reach all of them, I'm just pinching myself, really.
"In the first year out of your claim you don't know how it's going to go, but all of the trainers have kept on backing me so to reach 100 winners feels incredible.
"In 2008 when Hayley got 100 winners I was sat in school and looking up to Hayley thinking, 'Wow that's amazing'.
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"I would never have expected for myself to then go on and hit those heights.
"Hayley was my idol when I was a kid so I'm very happy to emulate her and reach these goals that I've set myself."