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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
Dick Rees, the son of a Pembrokeshire vet, was one of the greatest of the inter-war jockeys. He rode Shaun Spadah, the 100/9 outsider to victory in the 1921 Grand National winner and won the 1929 Champion Hurdle on Royal Falcon. He was the first winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1924 and also
The Welsh Sports Hall of Fame celebrated the 35th anniversary of its ‘Roll of Honour; at The Parkgate Hotel this week by inducting his 200th member. On a spectacular night in the Welsh capital two Olympic gold medallists, a former British and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing champion, a four-time Winter Olympian, two more Olympic medalists and a world
John Gwilliam was one of the greatest of all Welsh rugby captains and led Wales to two Grand Slams in three years in theFfifties. He guided Wales to glory in the 1950 and 1952 Five Nations campaigns and ended with a 73% success rate as captain of his country with nine wins and a draw
In 2001 Gareth Edwards was voted the ‘Greatest Welsh Rugby Player’ of all-time’ and in 2003, in a poll of international rugby players conducted by Rugby World magazine, he was declared the greatest player of all-time. He scored one of the greatest tries of all-time for the Barbarians when they beat the All Blacks in
Wales’ Grand Slam skipper in 1976 and one of the games’ greatest No8s, Mervyn Davies won 38 Welsh caps before injury cut him down in his prime. He won two Grand Slams and three Triple Crowns with Wales and made eight successive Test appearances for the British & Irish Lions, winning five and drawing two,