Jennifer Susan Pitman OBE (née Harvey, born 11 June 1946[1][2][3]) is a British former racehorse trainer and author.

[4] She was brought up assisting in manual farm work, where horse powered equipment was a novelty, and learned to ride a pony "so young that being on horseback seemed as natural as walking".

She sustained a fractured skull when a showjumping pole fell on her head during a gymkhana at Syston and it was many months before the resultant convulsions were diagnosed.

Two years later she changed employers, moving to a stable in Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, the first time she had lived away from her Leicestershire home.

Jenny's initial reaction to Pitman was unfavourable, but later, when Richard obtained a job in Lambourn, Berkshire at Fred Winter's training stables 50 miles (80 km) from Bishop's Cleeve, Jenny was persuaded to apply for a job in Lambourn with Major Champneys at Church Farm Stables.

With Richard's second place prize from the 1969 Grand National, the Pitmans were able to commission a bungalow on the premises to escape the poor condition caravan.

[5] After the breakdown of her marriage the next year, she bought out Richard's share and continued to run the yard, which grew from 19 to 80 boxes.

[9] In 2017 she became a member of the Disciplinary Panel and Licensing Committee of the British Horseracing Authority[10][11] Aged 19, she married Richard Pitman.