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Jack Anthony is not a name that gets tossed into the conversation too often when you debate who is the greatest Welsh sportsman. ‘Jack who’ is more often the query when his name gets raised, but he was part of a pretty amazing family and on this weird and wonderful day, when the Grand National
Two of Wales’ greatest players, Gareth Edwards and Phil Bennett, brought down the curtain on their incredible careers by steering their side to a Grand Slam win over France in Cardiff on Saturday, 18 March, 1978. Scrum half Edwards hung up his boots after playing 53 consecutive matches for his country and scoring a record
Carl Llewellyn distinguished himself at Aintree not once, but twice as he won the Grand National. Not only that, both his wins came on exactly the same date – 4 April. The years were 1992 on Party Politics and 1998 on Earth Summit. His first win earned owner Patricia Thompson £99,943. Party Politics came in
Jack Anthony was born and raised on a Carmarthenshire farm and was the youngest of three jockeys who all rode in the Grand National. Between them they picked up 10 finishes in the top three. Jack rode his first winner in 1906 at the age of 16, made his Grand National debut in 1909 and
Harry Llewellyn and Foxhunter became as much of a double-act as ham and eggs or fish and chips. They helped the British show jumping team strike gold in the 1952 Olympic Games in the final round in Helsinki with a clear round that was in stark contrast to their earlier effort, in which they picked
Fulke Walwyn first grabbed the headlines when, as an amateur rider, he won the 1936 Grand National on Reynoldstown. With two fences to go it was the 100-1 outsider Davy Jones who looked a certain winner before his reins broke. Walwyn was having problems of his own after losing his whip at Valentine’s on the