'She was an unbelievable woman' - Evelyn Slack, matriarch of a training family, dies at 83

Evelyn Slack, "an unbelievable woman" who was twice champion permit-holder and was the matriarch of a training family, has died at the age of 83.

Slack came from a harness racing family, driving winners from her early teens, but turned to thoroughbred racing in the late 1980s.

She trained horses usually carrying the colours of her husband Arthur and became renowned for conjuring wins out of a cheaply acquired Appleby-in-Westmorland string.