Norah Wilmot

In the unmarried Wilmot's case "her" licence was held by her successive head lads: Rickards, Metcalfe, Swash, and finally Bob Greenhill.

[3] In 1963, Queen Elizabeth II sent her horse, Night Watch, to Wilmot to train, defying the Jockey Club by including "a WOMAN (sic) among her trainers for the coming flat-racing season" according to the Daily Herald.

[7] Wilmot was a contemporary and friend of the feminist and fellow trainer Florence Nagle, who had long campaigned against what she saw as an injustice to her sex in British racing.

Eventually, frustrated by the Jockey Club's persistent refusal to grant women a training licence, Nagle sought legal redress; initially unsuccessful, her fight finally reached the Court of Appeal in 1966.

"[8] Faced with the court's damning and embarrassing decision,[9] the Jockey Club was forced to capitulate, and on 3 August 1966 Nagle and Wilmot became the first women in Britain to receive licences to train racehorses.