1966 the course took its place in the modernisation lists of the Horserace Betting Levy Board. A scheme was drawn up and approved whereby £167,000 would be spent in giving the course its long overdue facelift, Mrs.Olive Davis a local bookmaker and chairman of Uttoxeter council along with MrMr John Kenny MBE and clerk to the course at both Uttoxeter and Stratford instigated the facelift and pursued the levy board for the funds. Olive became Chairman of Uttoxeter Racecourse, and was known as the Mrs Toppam of Uttoxeter, after the only other female racecourse chairman in England at the time ( Mrs Topham of Anitree). Olive Davis then continued to promote the race course on non-race days in the newly built Paddock Suite, which became the main venue in Uttoxeter for, weddings, Balls, Disco parties, and private functions. Laying the foundations fortoday's popularity for the racecourse as a place to hold an event. Mrs Olive Davis was also known for her support and pioneering activities in the crusade to get ladies accepted as jockeys. Her husband Raymond Davis was a well known national Hunt Jockey and her father was Arthur Birch a renowned trainer. Olive died in 1999, but her dedication to Uttoxeter racecourse is the corner stone of its success today . 1967 Champion jockey Josh Gifford equalled Fred Winter's record of 121 winners in a season at Uttoxeter on 15 June, the very last meeting of the 1966–67 National Hunt term. The horse was five-year-old Jolly Signal trained by Earl Jones at Hednesford. Half an hour later Gifford broke the record when he rode Red Flush to a 10-lengths victory in the Ashbourne Handicap Chase. 1976 Rag Trade, owned by the flamboyant hairdresser Raymond 'Teasy Weasy' Bessone, won the Marston's Pedigree Midlands Grand National and followed-up by winning the Grand National at Aintree a few weeks later. 1982 Uttoxeter was again the decisive venue when John Francome, on John Edward's Buckmaster, gained his 800th overall winner and his 120th for the season to share the jump jockeys title with the sidelined Peter Scudamore. 1988 Sir Stanley Clarke CBE acquired Uttoxeter from East Staffordshire district council. Forming holding company Northern Racing, Clarke made a significant personal investment in facilities, including the creation of two new grandstands and a new paddock development. 1997 The Midlands National produced its most famous horse in Lord Gyllene, owned by Uttoxeter's chairman Sir Stanley