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 Jill,
our Travelling Head Girl, joined the Pond House team in May 2006. A
local girl having been born in Exeter, she became interested in
horse racing whilst still at school when she went to work at a
point-to-point yard at weekends.
Jill has worked previously for Terry and Stuart Pattemore’s
point-to-point & NH yards after which came a stint as Head Girl at
both the Sue Howard and Rose Vickery pointing yards. She was
Secretary/Head Girl to Rupert Nuttall which involved buying and
selling dairy cows and training timber racing horses/pointers.
Interestingly Jill then worked as Secretary for Graeme Harrison, an
international stamp dealer. But the racing world obviously beckoned
for Jill as she later went to work at Jamie Osbourne’s establishment
in Lambourn as Travelling Head Girl before coming here to Pond
House.
One of the best horses Jill has looked after is Indianapolis which
won the Schweppes Hurdle at Newbury before winning six
point-to-points for Terry Pattemore in his first pointing season.
Her favourite horse in David’s yard is Milan Deux Mille.
One of the best moments in racing for Jill was the day she drove
three horses all the way up to Carlisle and came home with three
winners !! Not a bad day’s work.
A keen reader, Jill hopes to be at Pond House for many years to
come, in fact, until she’s ready to push up the daisies !!
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