Committee Members

Pepita Lives near Penrith on her husband’s family farming estate.

Previously she spent 20 years in Hong Kong and Singapore where she worked for an international property company and also enjoyed being a member of the HK Jockey club, racing at Happy Valley and Shatin and riding at Beas River.

Pepita is a keen cook and she enjoys spending time with her family she has two sons and a daughter, who are also avid racegoers!

Dickon is a qualified Chartered Surveyor and heads up the commercial property Capital Markets Team at the Newcastle office of Knight Frank.  

Dickon rode as an amateur jockey for 10 years, runs a racing syndicate, and is a committee member for the Tynedale Point To Point.  

Rowena has been involved in racing since riding out in her student days and completing the BHA Graduate Scheme.

After working as an assistant for the big meetings at Kempton and Epsom she was drawn back to training, working for both flat and National Hunt trainers and then in thoroughbred transport.  

She has also been secretary of a point-to-point. 

"I have a been a farmer most of my life and then latterly worked in Primary State Education in East Dumfriesshire. I am now more or less retired.

For a number of years I was involved with the Dumfriesshire Point to Point and I was DC of their Pony Club.

From 1969 to 1983 I was a Committee member of the Lockerbie Horse Trials which was run on the family farm at White Hill.

My children had ponies or horses throughout their youth, ably assisted by my late wife, Janet. Hunter Trials, hunting and Point to Pointing was also very much part of our family life.

This is the second season that I have had the honour and enjoyment of being a Member of the Committee here at Carlisle."

William is 65 years old, and was educated at Radley and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. William rode as an amateur under NH Rules and was a  Racecourse Steward and managed a stud for 21 years.

William Was Vice Chairman for the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association and is a Member of BHB/BHA Race Planning Committee, Trustee of British European Breeders’ Fund he is also a writer for the European Bloodstock News and farms and Author of Strongholds of Satan, the social history of bygone racecourses in Britain.