Multiple Grade 1-winning rider Gainford sets sights on returning next month after concussion issues

Jordan Gainford celebrates winning last year's Galway Plate on HewickCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Three-time Grade 1-winning rider Jordan Gainford has set his sights on returning for the Listowel Harvest Festival in September as he continues his recovery from a sequence of concussions in the spring.

Gainford, who has struck up such a good relationship with the Shark Hanlon-trained Hewick and also teamed up with the exciting Gerri Colombe for two of his three Grade 1 wins last season, has not ridden since April 26.

That was the second day of the Punchestown festival when he departed from Perfect Attitude at the fourth-last of the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel Hurdle. Six weeks earlier he had taken a heavy fall from Riviere D'etel in the Mares' Chase at Cheltenham.

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David JenningsDeputy Ireland editor

Published on 8 July 2023inIreland

Last updated 18:06, 8 July 2023

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