This year's Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup has already received plenty of publicity following Hayley Turner's return to the saddle from retirement to captain the girls' team in place of the injured Michelle Payne, and there has been another reshuffle of team members with Cathy Gannon failing to recover from injury in time to take up her place.
The unique team-based contest, which pitches an all-female squad against teams of jockeys from the UK and Ireland, Europe and the rest of the world, takes place at Ascot on Saturday, Aug. 6, and will now feature apprentice Josephine Gordon, who has risen to prominence this season and follows in the footsteps of another claimer, Sammmy-Jo Bell, who ended last year's Shergar Cup as the leading rider.
Gordon joins Shergar Cup regulars Hayley Turner and Canadian Emma-Jayne Wilson, while another change to the line-up has seen Joe Fanning called in to captain the UK and Ireland team in place of Jamie Spencer, who is suspended for the meeting.
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