Welsh champion jockey, winner of the 1921 Grand National
Dick Rees
Occupation
Jockey
Born
(1894-11-30)30 November 1894 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Died
14 August 1951(1951-08-14) (aged 56) Lewes, Sussex, England
Major racing wins
Grand National - 1921
Grand Sefton Steeplechase - 1921
Cheltenham Gold Cup - 1924, 1928, 1929
Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris - 1925
Champion Hurdle - 1929
Racing awards
National Hunt Champion Jockey (1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1926-27)
Significant horses
Shaun Spadah
Red Splash
Patron Saint
Easter Hero
Frederick Brychan Rees (1894 - 1951), known professionally as Dick Rees (sometimes Fred Rees or F. B. Rees) was a Welsh jockey who was the British Jump Racing Champion on five separate occasions in the 1920s. During the course of his career, Rees won the Cheltenham Gold Cup on three separate occasions, and the 1921 Grand National.
Frederick Brychan Rees (1894 - 1951), known professionally as DickRees (sometimes Fred Rees or F. B. Rees) was a Welsh jockey who was the British Jump...
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with Major E.H. Wyndham's five year old, Red Splash, 5/1, ridden by DickRees and trained by Fred Withington, beating Conjuror II by a head, with Gerald...
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Grand National mounts that DickRees rode on Shaun Spadah. While his only victory came in that first race, Shaun Spadah and Rees would place second in the...
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the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice in succession, in 1929 under the mount of DickRees and again in 1930, when ridden by Tommy Cullinan. In the 1929 Grand National...
18 March 1921. The race was won by Shaun Spadah, a 100/9 bet ridden by DickRees and trained by George Poole for owner Malcolm McAlpine. The winner was...
landscape artist Thomas 'Clio' Rickman (1760–1834), brewer and pamphleteer DickRees (1894-1951), five-time champion jumps jockey Edward Ayearst Reeves (1862–1945)...
Lewis Rees and trained by Owen Anthony, for owner Hugh Kershaw, who collected the winner's prize of £5,000. The winning jockey's brother, DickRees, had...
Leicester to the Methodist minister Reverend Montgomery Rees and his wife Catharine Millar, John Rawlings Rees experienced frequent relocations during his early...
Easter Hero for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Easter Hero had been ridden by DickRees to a twenty-length victory in the 1929 race and would start as the 8/11...
history". The Telegraph. Retrieved 18 October 2009. Shapiro, T. Rees (16 February 2010). "Dick Francis, British jockey turned popular mystery author, dies...
British troops. 26 March – Shaun Spadah wins the Grand National, ridden by DickRees. 31 March – The government formally returns the coal mines from wartime...
2/1F 40500 4:05.0 12-03-1929 1929, 12 March Royal Falcon 1005.5 11/2 6 DickRees Bob Gore Miss Victoria Williams-Bulkeley 6 2nd. (4 L) Kolie 4/1 3rd. (6...
for the winner. The 1921 winner Shaun Spadah - ridden by same jockey, DickRees - finished in second place, with Conjuror II in third and Punt Gun fourth...
12 January 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2013. Rees & Arrandale 2004, p. [page needed]. "Wing Commander Ken Rees – obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 1 September...
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beach at Tenby. In the Gold Cup he was ridden by Welsh champion jockey DickRees and started the 7/4 favourite in a ten-runner field with his rivals including...
Athletics) Jonathan Jones (Powerboating) [2] Gus Risman (Rugby League) * DickRees (Equestrian) * David Watkins (Rugby Union / League) 2001 Ronnie Burgess...
223–224. Kendall (1956), p. 368. Griffiths (1993), p. 43. Penn (2013), p. 9. Rees (2008), p. 211. "The original Welsh is 'Lladd y baedd, eilliodd ei ben'....