Does anyone know who is Britain's most northerly-based trainer??

Must be Lucinda, shirley?

I would have thought Lucy Normile perhaps?

He said racehorse trainers Ged!

does not have many runners, but mrs lucy normile holds the honour of britains most northerly trainer. she trains in GLENFARG. and glenfarg is north of milnahort and Kinross in perthshire where other trainers are based. hope that helps. could be handy in a pub quiz.

Bruce McTaggart has the most northerly name.

no problem onlooker. but it looks like the official result is that lucy normile is britains most northerly trainer. weighed in, weighed in.

inverurie is defintly near Aberdeen which is about 70 miles north of  perth and Kinross. never heard of this trainer. any info on her?

BRITAIN'S most northerly trainer, Jackie Stephen, celebrated her 50th birthday with a winner.

The Inverurie-based handler saddled Mo Rouge to win the opener on the second day of Perth's two-day meeting, on July 3.

...some are better than the pros

here is the result of the stewards enquiry> the places have been reversed. the winner is Jackie steven..

Does anyone remember the Jim Storie and family who trained up near Aberdeen in the 50's? They bred a lot from their Sire The Rocket. They used to land some big coups at the Scottish courses.

"a bit before my time oldgit. any stories to tell"
I worked for Ferranti in Edinburgh at that time and had a lot of followers for my selections. On Saturdays a lot of once a week punters would do my selections and watch the races on TV. The factory had a couple of Bookies runners and Edinburgh had betting shops that police turned a blind eye to before they became legal.
One Saturday my four selections won at from memory 100/8/,11/4. 100/7 and 10/11. Most of them gave their bets to someone to put on with his so that local bookie took the brunt of it.
I used to phone my bets to Hills and had that day but I sometimes would give a last minute bet to Tony one of the Bookies runners who did quite well on the commission he got. I had a non runner with him on the Friday so when he brought my money back on the Saturday I added a bit to it and did an extra Yankee on the four.
He was crestfallen when he gave me my winnings on the Monday and said that the bookie would not take my bets in future as on a busy Saturday he had not laid any of it off.

I don't remember the Cops ever arresting the punters. With the advance warning the bookies had they used to put a stooge on the site. As he had no previous convictions he got the minimum fine.
My Granny had a couple of lodgers who were cops. A bookie stood at the end of a lane opposite. One day they kept Obbo  from there noting the business he was doing before going over to arrest him. 
One day I went to put a bet on and the Bookie was not in his usual spot. I went around other places and could not find a bookie. When I got the evening paper I found that I had missed out on my three winning selections as the Cops had
a purge that day and rounded up all the street bookies.

Mange:
At that time I lived in London and Edinburgh.
Where I worked in London a Bookies daughter worked in the office. I used to give her some of my bets that she gave to her Dad at lunchtime. During the afternoon if I wanted another bet she phoned it to her mother who manned the phone for clients while her Dad sat in in a Wandsworth Pub taking bets.

Inverurie is 100 miles from Perth.

no way anyone trains from there.

Jackie Stephen is the most northerly trainer in the UK today. She had her first winner in 2012 in a point to point with Reland at Owerton, doesn't not have many runners though and has had just the one under rules this year with Amilliontimes who finished second at Cartmel just a couple of weeks ago. 

Prior to her I think that Christine Kerr who trained at Aberfeldy was the most northerly trainer.

That would be Christine Dunnet trains 11 miles north-west of John O Groats....

^ No, that will be someone in the Channel Islands.

There's a history of horses being trained in Inverurie . I am sure that I had an old Sporting life Guide to the Jumps that contained a map of Britain , which showed where training took place . Inverurie was away out North compared to any other place on the map . I remember Tom Dyer training an ex Luca Cumani inmate ( Bay Tern ) at Balruddery . This is near Invergowrie , a fair bit to the North of L. Russel , N. Alexander or L. Normile . He hasn't trained for a few years now .

Yes Ged , I can recall reading a report of the court case in the press . If I remember correctly his defence was that he was trying to pour the jug's contents over the victims head . Ah the joys of a night out in the City of Discovery ( Dundee ).
Balruddery is in the County of Angus .