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Katy Cropper | |
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Known for | Being the first woman to win One Man and His Dog (1990) |
Katy Cropper is a Welsh shepherd and dog trainer.
A self-taught sheepdog handler, [1] Cropper told First Women in 2016 that she had been "deliberately marked down or penalised [by men] to keep me from winning". [2] Then, in 1990, she (with her dog Trim) was the first woman to win the BBC's One Man and His Dog sheepdog trials television series ( Chirk Castle). Twenty-five years later, her daughter—Henrietta Cropper—was a finalist on the programme. As of September 2015 [update], Cropper was a sheep dog trainer. [1]
Henrietta Cooper, 12, is the youngest One Man and His Dog finalist and is following in her mother's footsteps
The First Woman to win 'One Man and His Dog' – in the face of 'competition, small-mindedness and having been put down by most men in the dog running world all my life.'
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Katy Cropper | |
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Known for | Being the first woman to win One Man and His Dog (1990) |
Katy Cropper is a Welsh shepherd and dog trainer.
A self-taught sheepdog handler, [1] Cropper told First Women in 2016 that she had been "deliberately marked down or penalised [by men] to keep me from winning". [2] Then, in 1990, she (with her dog Trim) was the first woman to win the BBC's One Man and His Dog sheepdog trials television series ( Chirk Castle). Twenty-five years later, her daughter—Henrietta Cropper—was a finalist on the programme. As of September 2015 [update], Cropper was a sheep dog trainer. [1]
Henrietta Cooper, 12, is the youngest One Man and His Dog finalist and is following in her mother's footsteps
The First Woman to win 'One Man and His Dog' – in the face of 'competition, small-mindedness and having been put down by most men in the dog running world all my life.'