David Victor Dick (8 March 1924 – 15 February 2001) was a British jockey who competed at the
Grand National
The Grand National is a National Hunt horse race held annually at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, England. First run in 1839, it is a handicap ...
from 1951 to 1965, winning the race in 1956 on
E.S.B. He was the only jockey ever to win both races of the Lincoln-Grand National
Spring Double
The Lincoln Handicap is a Flat racing, flat Handicap (horse racing), handicap Horse racing, horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres ...
and he holds the record, nine times, for the number of clear rounds on a notoriously difficult Aintree course. (The Aintree Clear Rounds Award, given for any jockey completing more than five clear rounds, was not instituted until 1986.)
Dick was born in
Ashampstead
Ashampstead is a small village and civil parish in the rural area between Reading, Newbury and Streatley in Berkshire, England. The parish population is about 400, occupying some 150 dwellings.
History
The village was called ''Esshamstede'' in ...
,
Berkshire
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, the son of Glasgow-born jocky and racehorse trainer David Purvis Dick (1896-1989) and his wife Alice Isabel Ivall. He died in
Reading
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, aged 76.
[''England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005'']
In 1969, Dick married Caroline Lockhart, with whom he had one son and one daughter, the Olympic bronze medalist,
Daisy Dick
Katherine Mary "Daisy" Dick (born 29 March 1972, in Oxford) is a British three-day eventing rider. With her horse Spring Along, she won the bronze medal for Great Britain in the team eventing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She studied a ...
.
References
British jockeys
2001 deaths
1924 births
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