Britain's winning-most female trainer Mary Reveley has died aged 76.
The
pioneering former flat and jumps trainer, based in North Yorkshire,
saddled more than 2,000 winners across her distinguished career.Reveley died of a suspected heart attack at her family's stables on Monday morning.
"We're all still in shock, but it's just typical of her that she was around horses right up to the end," said her son Keith.
Her flat triumphs include winning the 1991 Cambridgeshire Handicap with Mellottie and two Cesarewitchs - with Old Red and Turnpole.
Over the jumps, Cab on Target won the Spa Hurdle at Cheltenham and the Mildmay Novices' Chase at Aintree's Grand National meeting.
Other big-race victories came through Marello, Seven Towers and Into The Red.
Based at Groundhill Farm stables in Saltburn, Reveley took out a training licence with just four horses in 1982.
She was the first woman in Britain to saddle 100 winners in a calendar year, in 1991.
Reveley retired from training in 2004 and handed over to her son, who announced his own retirement this January.
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