Sherry June Cooper was apprenticed to Blewbury-based trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in the first half of the 1980s and rode two winners, both in 1982.
Her first win was gained on 12-1 chance Acushla Macree, trained by Johnson Houghton, in the Caerwent Apprentice Handicap at Chepstow on Bank Holiday Monday, August 30, 1982, taking the lead with a furlong to run and drawing clear to win by four lengths.
Her second win came on another Johnson Houghton-trained horse, the two-year-old filly Decorated, in the Foston Nursery Handicap at Nottingham on September 27, 1982.
During 1983 she rode Johnson Houghton’s popular six-year-old Socks Up four times, going closest when second, beaten two lengths, in the Brighton Challenge Cup at the end of June. They then finished fifth in Goodwood’s Chesterfield Cup, 13th of 30 behind Sagamore in the Cambridgeshire, and eighth in Newmarket’s Tia Maria-sponsored Autumn Handicap at the end of October.
Sherry rode Socks Up just once in 1984, finishing ninth of 23 in the Coronach Handicap at Nottingham on April 2, 1984. She appears to have had very few rides after that, despite continuing her apprenticeship until 1986.
Sherry's first win: Acushla Macree at Chepstow, Bank Holiday Monday, August 30, 1982.
