Liam Treadwell
Occupation	National Hunt jockey
Born	3 January 1986 Arundel, West Sussex, England
Died	23 June 2020(2020-06-23) (aged 34) Billingsley, Shropshire, England
Career wins	308
Significant horses
Mon Mome

Liam Treadwell (3 January 1986 – 23 June 2020) was an English National Hunt jockey, who won over 300 races between 2009 and 2019. He won the 2009 Grand National on Mon Mome at odds of 100/1, and also won the United House Gold Cup, Byrne Group Plate and Grand Sefton Steeplechase races.

Treadwell was born in Arundel, West Sussex, England. He attended the local Angmering School.^[1][2] He was nicknamed "Tredders".^[3]

Treadwell worked alongside trainer Venetia Williams.^[4] He was the winner of the 2009 Grand National, having ridden Mon Mome to victory at odds of 100/1. It was only the fifth time a horse at those odds won the race, the most recent being Foinavon in 1967.^[5] It was Treadwell's debut in the Grand National, in his first season in jump racing.^[6] After his Grand National victory on 4 April 2009, Clare Balding interviewed him and made fun of his apparently bad teeth. Both the BBC and Balding apologised by 6 April.^[7] Balding later said on BBC's Have I Got News for You quiz that she believed Treadwell to have had his teeth "kicked out" by a horse, a common injury suffered by jockeys, apologising again for her error.^[8][9] The BBC received over 2,000 complaints about Balding's remarks.^[10] Treadwell later received calls from dentists offering to fix his teeth for free.^[1] Later in 2009, Treadwell caused another upset by winning the United House Gold Cup at Ascot on The Last Derby at odds of 33/1.^[11]

In 2013, Treadwell won the Byrne Group Plate race at the Cheltenham Festival on Carrickboy.^[12][13] He was taken to hospital after falling in the Topham Chase.^[14] In the 2013–14 season, Treadwell had 42 winners, the most he achieved in a racing season.^[15] Treadwell was a standby rider for the 2014 Grand National.^[16] In 2015, he came third at the Grand National riding Monbeg Dude,^[12] and won the Grand Sefton Steeplechase on Bennys Mist.^[13] In 2016, he sustained a head injury after falling at Bangor. He was unable to race for six months.^[4] His injury was featured in a Professional Jockeys Association film about the dangers of concussion in horse racing.^[17]

Treadwell announced his retirement on 13 February 2018,^[9][8] citing health reasons, including his head injury and a shoulder injury. He had 298 winners at the time.^[15] In March 2019, he resumed racing, working with trainer Alastair Ralph.^[8][4] In his first race back, he rode Czech Her Out, who narrowly lost out to Miss Honey Ryder.^[18] He rode ten winners in the 2019–20 season, and worked as an assistant trainer for Ralph.^[2]

In total, Treadwell won 308 National Hunt races, and 28 flat races.^[2]

Treadwell died on 23 June 2020, aged 34, in Billingsley, Shropshire, after taking a mixture of drugs including an animal painkiller and class A substances.^[19][20][21] At an inquest in February 2021 a coroner recorded a verdict of misadventure.^[21]

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