Willie Morgan was the eldest of a family of Irish Jockeys which included Rees, Richard, Frank & Isaac.
Willie won the 1905 Grand Sefton on Hackwatch and finished second in the 1902 Grand National on Matthew.
He rode a total of 73 winners over the jumps.Two years before he died, he took a bad fall from Red Cloud at Newbury and never really recovered.
He died at Mount Neill, Waterford, on February 9, 1915 aged just 35, leaving a widow and two children.