Jennie Goulding was one of the leading lady amateur riders during the 1980s, riding 16 winners between 1979 and 1987.
Her first win came at Hamilton Park on June 12, 1979 in the Scottish Daily Express Amateur Riders’ Stakes when the five-year-old Clwyd was “all out”, as Raceform put it, to beat Pam Sherwin’s mount Pams Gleam by half a length. The winning combination had finished second at Haydock just four days earlier, beaten a neck by Gaie Johnson Houghton on Prince Titian.
Although Jennie had no more wins in 1979, she had 17 rides that year according to the ‘Ruff’s Gude’ annual, with only Elain Mellor and Diana Bissill having more starts among female amateur riders.
Jennie’s second win was her first against male jockeys when the four-year-old High Old Time beat 16 rivals to take the Burgh Barony Races Commemoration Cup at Carlisle in July 1980.
Her biggest win was on Leysh in the Florentine Diamond Stakes on ‘King George’ day at Ascot in July 1984, beating 20 others, with the three-year-old finishing three-quarters of a length clear of Prince Guard.
At Warwick in June 1986 she rode Vague Melody to beat HRH Princess Anne on Snake River, trained by David Nicholson, in the Brooke Bond Catering Stakes.
Her final victory was at Redcar on September 26, 1987, when the three-year-old Sealed Bid, trained by Lester Piggott, beat Tim Thomson Jones on Reindeer Walk at the end of the Red Mountain Coffee Cup, an amateur riders’ handicap, by a length and a half. Jennie finished third in the list of winning amateur jockeys that year, he three wins placing her placing behind Tim Easterby and Tim Thomson Jones with five.
Jennie Goulding’s winners were, in chronological order:
1. Clywd, Hamilton Park, June 12, 1979, trained by Denys Smith
2. High Old Time, Carlisle, July 2, 1980, trained by Stan Mellor
3. Carlton Hall, Redcar, August 8, 1980, trained by Denys Smith
4. Dom Perignon, Newcastle, August 25, 1980, trained by Bill Elsey
5. Bracken Gill, Edinburgh, July 12, 1982, trained by Mrs. A. Bell
6. Thunderbridge, Ayr, May 28, 1983, trained by Steve Norton
7. Thunderbridge, Wolverhampton, August 13, 1983, trained by Steve Norton
8. Thunderbridge, Edinburgh, July 9, 1984, trained by Colin Tinkler
9. Leysh, Ascot, July 28, 1984, trained by Steve Norton
10. Hello Gypsy, Warwick, June 22, 1985, trained by Colin Tinkler
11. Fen Tiger, Ripon, June 26, 1985, trained by Reg Hollinshead
12, Vague Melody, Warwick, June 7, 1986, trained by Lester Piggott
13. Carousel Rocket, Hamilton Park, June 10, 1986, trained by John Wilson
14. Commonsidr Gipsy, Ripon, June 24, 1987, trained by Steve Norton
15. Versailles Road, Yarmouth, July 15, 1987, trained by Lester Piggott
16. Sealed Bid, Redcar, September 26, 1987, trained by Lester Piggott