Meet 'Flash' Gordon - the one-eyed jockey who smashed the clock on Vandeek
The breeze-up sales have become an increasingly integral part of the bloodstock world in recent years – and have given a rider whose racing career ended in desperate circumstances a second chance at glory.
Gordon Power, nicknamed 'Flash' when he started riding out on the Curragh as an apprentice, was forced to quit race-riding after a freak accident in 2002 left him blind in one eye.
However, the 44-year-old is now very much in demand around the world as a specialist breeze-up rider and his star has risen further thanks to the exploits of Vandeek, the recent Group 1 winner who was ridden to "smash the clock" by Power when breezing at the Tattersalls Craven sale in April.
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