Philip Carberry (born 1 November 1980) is a retired Irish national hunt jockey. He is a member of the Carberry racing dynasty with his father

Tommy Carberry Tommy Carberry (15 September 1941 – 12 July 2017) was a Irish jockey who rode mostly in National Hunt races. He was Irish jump racing Champion Jockey four times. He is best known for winning the 1975 Grand National on L'Escargot. He rode a tot ...

a Gold Cup and Grand National winner, later a trainer. Philip's brother

Paul Carberry Paul Carberry is a retired Irish National Hunt jockey. Background He was born on 9 February 1974.Nina Carberry Nina Carberry (born 19 July 1984) is a retired Irish female National Hunt jockey. She hails from a racing family and is the daughter of jockey Tommy Carberry. Career Carberry got her first Cheltenham Festival win in 2005 on Dabiroun in the Fred W ...

was a hugely successful amateur jockey.

Racing career

Philip rode as an amateur in 1997 before turning professional the following season. He has won many top level races around the world, including the 2006

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with Point Barrow and the 2007 Champion Hurdle with Sublimity. During the same Cheltenham Festival, Carberry added another big winner with Pedrobob in the County Hurdle. Following this he moved to

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in France linking up with trainer Francois Cottin. Additional success followed in France with two victories in the Group 1 Grand Steeplechase de Paris on Princess D'Anjou. Winning the race for the first time in 2006, Carberry was the first overseas jockey to win the race since Fred Winter on Mandarin in 1962. Carberry retired in 2017 following a career where he won over 300 races. He began supporting wife Louisa with their training operation in France.

Cheltenham Festival Winners (2)

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- Sublimity (2007) * County Hurdle - Pedrobob (2007)

Major Wins

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- (1) Sublimity (2007)

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- (2) Princess D'Anjou (2006, 2008)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carberry, Philip 1980 births Living people Irish jockeys People from Ashbourne, County Meath Equestrians from County Meath