Jenny Pitman OBE (left) is a woman who can spit bile with the best of them around the yard. When she doesn't like you she is not inclined to drop gentle hints. Journalists have often taken a tongue lashing from one of the most successful trainers in the game and none more so than Julian Wilson, the former BBC commentator.

In a piece in this week's Racing Post Mrs P rebukes the paper's Clement Freud for not giving a racing punter an autograph at Market Rasen 25 years ago before having a go at Wilson.

"I would sooner kiss Garrison Savannah's arse than speak to him," she says. Whooa girl!