Katy Cropper is a Welsh shepherd and dog trainer.

Katy Cropper
Occupations
Known forBeing the first woman to win
One Man and His Dog (1990)

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, Cropper was a sheep dog trainer.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Singh, Anita (19 September 2015). "Schoolgirl bids to make history on One Man and His Dog". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2020. Henrietta Cooper, 12, is the youngest One Man and His Dog finalist and is following in her mother's footsteps
  2. ^ Cropper, Katy (4 July 2016). "Interview with Katy Cropper". First Women (Interview). Interviewed by Deborah Willimott. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2020. 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.'