{"id":1597,"date":"2017-08-08T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/08\/josephine-gordon-will-not-follow-turner-lead-and-ride-in-france-this-winter\/"},"modified":"2017-08-08T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:43:11","slug":"josephine-gordon-will-not-follow-turner-lead-and-ride-in-france-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Gordon will not follow Turner lead and ride in France this winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Turner to take advantage of weight allowance offered to female jockeys\u2022 Gordon has to give up place in Shergar Cup at Ascot to ride elsewhereJosephine Gordon, the reigning champion apprentice, has said she will not follow Hayley Turner\u2019s example and seek to take advantage of the weight allowance offered to female jockeys by French racing. While Turner said on Saturday that it is \u201ca no-brainer\u201d for her to exploit the 2kg advantage by riding in France this winter, Gordon is planning to spend the off-season in Britain, with perhaps an occasional foray to the Middle East, and has no plans to use the profile she has gained in the past year to break into France.\u201cIf Hugo Palmer or another trainer was sending a horse over to France and wanted me to ride it, of course I\u2019d do that,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cIf I find myself riding there, then of course I\u2019d embrace it [the allowance]. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/aug\/08\/josephine-gordon-not-follow-hayley-turner-example-ride-france-horse-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Josephine Gordon will not follow Turner lead and ride in France this winter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Turner to take advantage of weight allowance offered to female jockeys\u2022 Gordon has to give up place in Shergar Cup at Ascot to ride elsewhereJosephine Gordon, the reigning champion apprentice, has said she will not follow Hayley Turner\u2019s example and seek to take advantage of the weight allowance offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}