'The key thing is to be in the first four or five and then you’ve got options'

All-weather queen reveals to Lewis Porteous the key to success on the sand

Josephine Gordon: has worked really hard for recognitionn

Josephine Gordon: ended 2016 with 44 winners on the all-weatherCredit: Julian Herbert

Some riders shudder at the prospect of an evening shift under the floodlights at one of Britain’s all-weather tracks.

A far cry from the summer spectacles on the lush green turf of Ascot or York, this is often racing at its grassroots – without the grass of course – and its homogeneous nature can set pulses racing for the wrong reasons.

That is not a universal opinion, however.

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Lewis PorteousReporter

Published on 15 August 2017inSeries

Last updated 13:16, 16 August 2017

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