Katy Cropper

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]