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

Must be Lucinda, shirley?

Sorry, was thinking Flat trainer

I would have thought Lucy Normile perhaps?

Alan Berry - trains just north of Lerwick.

He said racehorse trainers Ged!

Lucinda Russell has had runners on the Flat

However - Lucy NORMILE trains around 4 miles further North, at Duncrevie -  than Lucinda Russell, who is at Arlary - Both being to the north of Kinross.

N W Alexander trains to the East of Loch Leven, being to the east of Kinross, at Kineston - but is around 4 miles south of Lucinda Russell.

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.

onlooker. I see you posted lucy normile trains at duncrevie. has she relocated as my book states she trains at glenfarg?

Bruce McTaggart has the most northerly name.

conductor -

I got Duncrievie from the RsacingPost website.

However - Duncrievie is a small village - about a mile from the next village of Glenfarg - the villages being 4, and 5, miles north of Kinross.

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

i think there's a newish trainer called jackie stephen who trains in inverurie, in aberdeenshire

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

i hardly know anything about her, only came across the name about 6 months ago, think she has had 1 or 2 winners:

http://www.sportinglife.com/racing/news/article/465/9370638/first-winner-for-permit-holder-at-perth

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.

A permit holder isn't a fully fledged trainer imo!

...some are better than the pros

- and - the original poster - posted ...

kansas     01 Sep 14 13:52 

Sorry, was thinking Flat trainer

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

Jim Goldie then keith dalgleish is probably the most meaningful answer to the OP.

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?

"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.

happy days and a nice story..my dad worked as a clerk for a bookie before it became legal. it was so farcical the police would visit the shop to warn them that is was being visited the next day. punters were taken to court but the bookie was a good guy and paid their fines and gave them a couple of quid for a few drinks as well. my dad thought it was strange the police targeted the punters and not the bookie or his staff...

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.

Oldgit  My uncle Bob Siviers  was a "bookies runner" in Brighton 50s/60s.........Did U know him ?

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.

just read your post Koi. 

Inverurie is 15 miles north of Aberdeen and Aberdeen is 90 miles from Perth.

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.

Don't be an idiot Aberdonia - Broon goes on about Jackie Stephen every time she has a runner.

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

Alan Aylet............................I.O.W.





sorry thats southernmost

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

jmdc, broony has just gone in again with that won!

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 .

Tom Dyer had a great day on Northumberland Plate Day in 1995 - he trained 2 winners on the card - a £15k prize and an £11k.

Just over a year later he handed in his licence after just missing a prison sentence for having smashed a water jug in a bloke's face at a Christmas party in a Dundee pub. He had an accountancy business too.

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 .

NorthofP - are you anywhere near Bankfoot? My partner's from there. Her mum still lives there, and one of her brothers.

BLIMEY !

She has only gone and had a 14/1 Winner -

- with her only runner - at PERTH - today.


Mrs Jackie Stephen
    Inverurie, Aberdeens

SECOND winner - both this year - July and today - from 17 runners - in past 3 years.
---------------

6:30 - Dewhurst Ring Bookmakers Handicap Hurdle

    Full result

2m½f, Class 4, £3,898.00

1 Amilliontimes 14/1
2 Dynamic Drive 7/1
3 Obispo 5/2

6 ran Distances: ½l, 4½l, 1¼l
TIME 3m 57.90s (slow by 10.90s)

Jockey: Tony Kelly
Trainer: Mrs Jackie Stephen

WIN £19.20 PL £5.90, £2.60

In the post race interview with Bill Harvey ,Mr Stephen stated that they only have 2 horses in training and 2 others coming to them soon . Not too bad that , 2 beasts in training and they both manage to win at your nearest track in the same summer . Tonight's winner was the outsider of the race .
Ged , I reside in darkest Perthshire and manage to get to Perth races now and then !

Is this the thread, onlooker?

First winner for permit-holder at Perth
By Gordon Brown

Last Updated: 03/07/14 6:11pm
A review of Thursday's action at Perth, where Jackie Stephen recorded a first winner with Mo Rouge.

Britain's most northerly-based handler Jackie Stephen saddled her first winner when the Tony Kelly-ridden Mo Rouge landed the Visit Scone Palace Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at Perth.

Mrs Stephen, also celebrating her 50th birthday, said: "I've had a permit for about a year and a half and I used to ride out for Lucinda Russell. I knew the horses were in good form and this is unbelievable.

From the Sporting Life 2014


A review of Thursday's action at Perth, where Jackie Stephen recorded a first winner with Mo Rouge.

Britain's most northerly-based handler Jackie Stephen saddled her first winner when the Tony Kelly-ridden Mo Rouge landed the Visit Scone Palace Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle at Perth.

Mrs Stephen, also celebrating her 50th birthday, said: "I've had a permit for about a year and a half and I used to ride out for Lucinda Russell. I knew the horses were in good form and this is unbelievable.

"My husband Patrick has been very supportive and he farms all sorts but mainly pigs - they have been subsidising the horses!

"I only have four in training and we are west of Aberdeen, about two hours north of here by horsebox."

yes inverurie my home town, she had a few runners at market rasen recently, that's a fair journey!

Oldgit
You mention Jim Storie,I wonder if you've got the Storie spelt correct.The reason I ask is that about that time Wilf Storey had a decent little little horse called Elvis.I know he got it from Aberdeen & the only reason he acquired it was because it went mental if they tried to put anything else in the box with it.Of course being based so far North they very rarely travelled with just one in the box(economics)so Wilfie being based in Co.Durham ended up with it.I just wondered if the two could have related.