Pitman was born as Jenny Harvey on her family's farm near Hoby, Leicestershire, one of seven children.
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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.
This victory made her only the second female trainer to win the race, after Jenny Pitman.
Jenny Lind | Jenny Agutter | Jenny McCarthy | 867-5309/Jenny | Jenny Thompson | The Jenny Jones Show | Jenny Eclair | Jenny Owen Youngs | Jenny Holzer | Hans Jenny | Jenny Wormald | Jenny Wolf | Jenny Wiley | Jenny | Richard Pitman | Pitman shorthand | Jenny Warren | Jenny Scheinman | Jenny Pitman | Jenny Lou Carson | Isaac Pitman | Hans Jenny (cymatics) | Chelsea Pitman | Pirate Jenny | Jenny Wright | Jenny Willott | Jenny Sparks | Jenny Runacre | Jenny O'Hara | Jenny Oaks Baker |
Richard Pitman provided nostalgia with interviews with several famous names from the history of the race, including an interview with his ex-wife Jenny Pitman while Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes interviewed spectators in the stands for unusual and interesting stories.
In 1995 his trainer Jenny Pitman tried to talk the owners, Gary and Libby Johnson out of running him at Aintree, confessing to the BBC's Des Lynam in a post race interview that she thought they were "Mad bringing him here 'cause he could win the Scottish National (scheduled to be run two weeks later) doing triple toeloops."