Priscilla Victoria Hastings was a British racehorse owner and trainer.
Background
Hastings was the daughter of Malcolm Bullock, who was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1923 to 1953 and became a baronet in 1954, and his wife Lady Victoria Bullock (née Stanley), the third child of Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby. Her mother had previously married Neil Primrose, son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, in 1915, but she was widowed in 1917, and had married Bullock in 1919. In 1947 she married Peter Hastings, son of Aubrey Hastings and grandson of Francis Hastings, 13th Earl of Huntingdon.
Career
Lady Victoria Bullock was killed in an accident while hunting with the Quorn in November 1927, aged 35. Sir Malcolm Bullock father died in 1966. They had four children:
William Hastings-Bass, a racehorse trainer, who inherited the title of Earl of Huntingdon in 1990
Emma Hastings-Bass, who married Ian Balding and is the mother of trainer Andrew Balding and television presenter Clare Balding
Simon Hastings-Bass
John Hastings-Bass
Their children also adopted the new surname but Priscilla Hastings kept her name unchanged.
In 1953 they bought the 1,500 acres (610 ha) Kingsclere estate, near Newbury, Berkshire.
Her husband died of cancer in 1964, aged 42. The licence was officially taken over by the next trainer at Kingsclere, Ian Balding, who later married Hastings" daughter, Emma.
Hastings was a director of Newbury Racecourse and served as chairman of the racecourse. She was also a director of The Tote between 1984 and 1990 (only the second woman to hold that position).
Priscilla Hastings died at Kingclere aged 90.
On the day of her death, the horse Cool Strike carried her black and yellow racing colours to third place at Newbury Racecourse.