The Irish Road To Cheltenham was a five-part observational documentary series following five
National Hunt
In horse racing in the United Kingdom, France and Republic of Ireland, National Hunt racing requires horses to jump fences and ditches. National Hunt racing in the UK is informally known as "jumps" and is divided into two major distinct branches: ...
Jockeys throughout the 2012/13 National Hunt season and in their ultimate objective, to compete at the
Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Festival is a horse racing-based meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, with race prize money second only to the Grand National. The four-day festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Ra ...
in March 2013.
The documentary gave access into their lives and a glimpse of the physical and mental lengths they go through both on and off the race track. The first episode aired on 7 March 2013 on RTÉ 1.
Jockeys Featured
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Davy Russell
Davy Russell (born 27 June 1979) is a retired Irish National Hunt jockey. He was Irish jump racing Champion Jockey three times, and won the Grand National (twice), the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris.
Childhood and ama ...
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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 ...
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Andrew Lynch
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Andrew McNamara
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Robert Power
References
External links
The Irish Road To Cheltenhamat RTÉ
Video Preview of the series
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2013 Irish television series debuts
RTÉ original programming
2013 Irish television series endings