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