Horse racing owner and racecourse founder Dai Walters is believed to be among those injured in a helicopter crash in Wales on Tuesday. The famous businessman and horse-racing fanatic is reported to be one of five people reportedly involved in the crash near Ruthin in Denbighshire on Tuesday.
One of Wales' most well-known businessmen, Walters regularly appears on annual lists of the richest business owners in the country for his wide-ranging business interests in construction and his love for horse racing. He has poured millions of pounds into horse racing over the years.
His fortune is entirely self-made having started out as an apprentice labourer at an opencast site in south Wales in the 1970s. The Walters Group website describes how after work as a labourer, greengrocer and tree planter, at 20 years old he took a job as an apprentice fitter at the Wimpey operated Maesgwyn opencast coal mine.
