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
John Godfrey Parry Thomas was born in Wrexham on 6 April 1884 and went on to twice raise the world land speed record. The wee set in 1926 at Pendine Sands and he was tragically killed a year later attempting to raise the record again at the same venue Thomas was inducted onto the ‘Roll
Robert Jones was born in Trebanos on 10 November, 1965 and educated at Cwmtawe Comprehensive School. He won a Grand Slam with the Wales Schools U18 team before joining his home team club of Swansea, for who he played 290 times. He captained the Whites, won league and cup honours with them and was 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
Agnes Davies (nee Morris) was born in Saron, Carmarthenshire, on 30 September 1920. She was a pioneer of women’s snooker whose competitive career spanned 64 years before she died at the age of 90 in 2011. When her father, a miner, contracted the lung disease pneumoconiosis and was forced to leave the pit, he used