Corbiere (horse) circuit. He was strongly challenged by the Irish horse Greasepaint in the run-in but held on to win by three-quarters of a length. His victory made Pitman the first woman to train a Grand National winner. Corbiere also came third in the 1984 and 1985 Grand Nationals, and after falling in 1986, he finished 12th in 1987. Corbiere (horse) Corbiere (1974–1988) was a racehorse who won the Grand National in 1983. Corbiere was a chestnut gelding with a broad white blaze bred in the United Kingdom by M Parkhill. During his racing career he was trained by Jenny Pitman at
Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman is a book of correspondence, in the form of letters, from Arvind Nehra, an Indian judge in colonial India. First published in 1934, this compilation of letters that were "unhindered by thoughts of public utterance". Nehra met the English woman, the wife of an English Colonel, at a party at Government House in Calcutta, after having recently returned from university in Cambridge. The author is then sent to Burma and he documents his time there, suffering all the racism that was ever