Cathy Gannon: ‘I used to ride my pony to school, tie him up and ride him back’
When Cathy Gannon won the apprentice jockey’s title 20 years ago, she received a letter out of the blue from Julie Krone, the American rider. Krone was nearing the end of a Hall of Fame career in which she would ride more than 3,700 winners, but like many …