Career
Born with dislocated hips and later suffering childhood asthma, she overcame these disabilities to ride in gymkhanas and then BSJA showjumping. She rode her mother"s novice mare, Scorched Earth, to victory in the flat race "Goya Stakes" at Kempton Park on 6 May 1972. Neither horse nor jockey had raced previously, and this was the first race in which female jockeys were allowed to ride under Jockey Club Rules.
She was appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1976, a year after retiring from race riding.
In 2002 she died of cancer at the age of 53 having raised several thousand pounds for Sparks, a children"s cancer charity.