‘These opportunities don’t come round very often for a young lad’: meet the ‘disbelieving’ 20-year-old bidding for Grade One glory

‘These opportunities don’t come round very often for a young lad’: meet the ‘disbelieving’ 20-year-old bidding for Grade One glory

Jump jockey Freddie Gordon, 20, is a rising star in horseracing, pictured here winning at Ascot on Unanswered Prayers.Having long been regarded as a rising star of the weighing room, 20-year-old jump jockey Freddie Gordon hit the horseracing headlines last month when riding a hat-trick of winners for his trainer father Chris Gordon at Haydock Park, including a brace of Graded races. During this remarkable “day to remember”, Freddie also rode out…