Famous Jockeys Series Of 48 No. 21 R. Dick In The Colours Of Lord Astor
Robert Dick was brilliantly conspicuous in the saddle during the 1933 season.
At the Ascot meeting he won three big races on consecutive days for Lord Astor – the St. James’s Palace Stakes, Coronation Stakes, and the Waterford Stakes, worth, in all, £10,030.
He also won on The Divot and dead-heated on Mannamead at the same meeting. In the same month he won the Newbury Summer Cup on Crême Brulée.
Born in Cowdenbeath, Scotland, in 1908, Dick, after completing a successful apprenticeship in Stanley Wootton’s Epsom Stable, rode for W. Nightingall’s establishment.
Later he was given a retainer by Lord Astor, for whom he has ridden many important winners.
