Kerryn Manning (born 10 July 1976) is an Australian horse trainer-driver and a world champion reinswoman in the sport of harness racing.
[1] Her father, Peter Manning, is also a trainer-driver in harness racing,[2] and after Manning completed Year 10 of high school, she started working for him.
[3] Manning has driven over 3500 winners in her career,[4] giving her the world record for number of career wins for a female reinswoman.
[5] She was the first driver to win 300 races in a season in either Australia or New Zealand and is also the first woman to drive a winner in both the Southern and Northern hemispheres.
[6] On 11 November 2015, Manning drove Arden Rooney to win the New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington Raceway and became the first woman to drive a winner of the Cup.