Jenny Pitman Jenny Pitman Jennifer Susan Pitman OBE ("née" Harvey, born 11 June 1946), known as Jenny Pitman, is a former British racehorse trainer and author. She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner, when Corbiere won the race in 1983. She went on to win a second Grand National with Royal Athlete in 1995. She has also trained two Cheltenham Gold Cup winners with Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 and with Garrison Savanah in 1991. Following her retirement from horse training in 1998 she became a writer of novels, principally with a racing theme. Pitman was born as
Michael Carroll (lottery winner) Michael Carroll (lottery winner) Michael Carroll (born 29 March 1983 in Swaffham, Norfolk) is an English winner of the UK National Lottery. A former binman, Carroll won £9,736,131 on the National Lottery in November 2002, aged 19. He enjoyed a celebrity status for a time in the British tabloid media as a "Lotto lout" and the self-proclaimed "King of Chavs". Michael Carroll's mother worked in a canning factory and his father was an RAF engineer. When Carroll was 18 months old, his father was jailed in a military prison for 11 years for stabbing a couple after getting into a