Jenny Pitman

Jenny Pitman

Jenny Pitman born 1946 is a former British racehorse trainer and author. She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner in 1983, when Corbiere was the victor.

She left school at fifteen taking up a position as a stable girl, she soon met jockey Richard Pitman and at the age of nineteen, married him. In 1975 she was successful in getting her first horse training licence.

The first winner came in the very same year and but in 1977 Jenny and Richard divorced and Jenny left Wiltshire and moved to Lambourn, Berkshire.

In 1998 she was awarded the OBE for services to horseracing. She retired from training in 1999.

External links

* [http://www.grand-national-world.co.uk/gnw/the_race/tales/jenny.html/ Grand National World]


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