David Purves Dick was born in Glasgow on October 1, 1896. He was apprenticed to Richard Wootton and won the 1914 Goodwood Stakes on Collodion. He went on to ride a total of 77 winners over jumps and finished fourth in the 1921 National Hunt jockeys’ table with 33 wins, a year rounded off with three winners over Kempton’s two-day Christmas meeting and a winner at Newbury on New Year’s Eve.
After retiring from race-riding David trained at Glanmire Farm, Epsom, from 1936 to 1961.
He was the elder brother of classic-winning jockey Bobby Dick and father of Lincolnshire Handicap and Grand National-winning jockey David Victor Dick.
He died in July 1989, aged 92.