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Carl Llewellyn (born 29 July 1965) is an assistant horse trainer to Nigel Twiston-Davies and a retired Wales professional National Hunt jockey. Llewellyn won the Grand National on two occasions along with the Welsh Grand National and Scottish Grand National as a jockey. He has also won the Whitbread / Bet365 Gold Cup both as a jockey and as a trainer and many group races.
His first big race victory was the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup at the 1988 Cheltenham Festival meeting on Smart Tar trained by Mark (Jumbo) Wilkinson.
He broke his leg in two places at Market Rasen on Saturday 3 March 1990 on Suncia, after Cool Trade fell. He had multiple operations at Lincoln County Hospital. Times Monday March 5 1990, page 31
On 12 March 1992 Llewellyn again had a winner at the Cheltenham Festival on Tipping Tim in the Ritz Club National Hunt Handicap Chase and later going on to win the 1992 Grand National on Party Politics and on 14 November 1992, during the Open Meeting, he won the Mackeson Gold Cup Handicap Chase again on Tipping Tim.
He was the main jockey for Nigel Twiston-Davies throughout his career. In 1997 he won the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle on Kerawi at the King George VI Chase meeting at Kempton Park. Llewellyn rode Beau to success at the 2000 Whitbread Gold Cup held at Sandown Park. Llewellyn won the race by the biggest winning margin in the history of the race. In 2003 he rode Bindaree to win the Welsh Grand National. His last ride as jockey came on 29 April 2009 at Punchestown Racecourse where he came in 4th position on Roll Along in the Punchestown Gold Cup.
| Grade 1 winners ridden by Carl Llwellyn | ||
| 1992 | Sefton Novices' Hurdle | Barton Bank |
| 1993 | Liverpool Hurdle | Sweet Duke |
| Long Walk Hurdle | Sweet Duke | |
| Tolworth Hurdle | Sun Surfer | |
| Scilly Isles Novices' Chase | Young Hustler | |
| Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle | Gaelstrom | |
| 1994 | Supreme Novices' Hurdle | Arctic Kinsman |
| 1996 | Long Walk Hurdle | Ocean Hawk |
| 1997 | Christmas Hurdle | Kerawi |
| Melling Chase | Martha's Son | |
| 1998 | Scilly Isles Novices' Chase | Jack Doyle |
| Triumph Hurdle | Upgrade | |
| 1999 | Challow Novices' Hurdle (2 Jan) | King's Road |
| Challow Novices' Hurdle (31 Dec) | Bindaree | |
| 2000 | Aintree Hurdle | Mister Morose |
| 2004 | Kauto Star Novices' Chase | Ollie Magern |
| Baring Bingham Novices' Hurdle | Fundamentalist | |
| All horses trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies except David Nicholson and Tim Forster | ||
Llewellyn trained 79 winners in three years at Weathercock House, but by June 2009, Llewellyn was sacked as trainer by the owner of Weathercock House, Malcolm Denmark. He has won the Whitbread / Bet365 Gold Cup as both a jockey and as a trainer. Llewellyn led out his last two horses for the stable on 27 Jun 2009 at Uttoxeter Racecourse, without any success. The following day he again joined Nigel Twiston-Davies as a business partner.
| Grade 1 winner trained by Carl Llwellyn | |||
| 2007 | Celebration Chase | Dempsey | Timmy Murphy |
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