Nina Carberry (born 19 July 1984) is a retired Irish female

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. She hails from a racing family and is the daughter of jockey

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Career

Carberry got her first

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win in 2005 on Dabiroun in the

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. It was the first time in 18 years that a female jockey won a race at the Cheltenham Festival. In 2005/06, she became Irish Qualified Rider Champion for the first time and repeated the feat the next season. At the Cheltenham Festival, she won the 2007 Cross Country Handicap Chase on Heads Onthe Ground, before winning on Garde Champetre in 2008 and 2009, to give her a record three wins in the race. She extended it to four wins in 2016 with Josies Orders when Any Currency was disqualified. In 2015 and 2016 she won the

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at the Cheltenham Festival riding On the Fringe. In 2011, she won the

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which was trained by her uncle Arthur Moore, becoming only the second woman rider to win the race. Between 2006 and 2016, she has competed in the

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six times, completing the course on four occasions. Her best result being a seventh-place finish on Character Building in

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. In 2015, she won the Fox Hunters' Chase at Aintree riding On the Fringe. On 21 September 2017, in her first race since November 2016, she won as a mother for the first time. Her win was on Cask Mate at Ballinrobe in the Connacht Tribune flat race. On 28 April 2018 the final day of the Punchestown Festival, Carberry announced her retirement after she won on Josies Orders for trainer Enda Bolger and owner J. P. McManus.

Other Work

In 2013, she became a racing assistant to Noel Meade. In 2015 she started riding out for

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during the summer.

Personal life

Her older siblings, Philip and

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, were also successful Irish riders. Nina married Ted Walsh Junior in February 2012. Walsh is the son of former jockey and Aintree National winning trainer

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. Nina's brother in-law is top jockey Ruby Walsh and her sister in-law is the Irish ex-jockey Katie Walsh. Nina announced in November 2016 she was expecting her first child and would miss the remainder of the 2016/17 National Hunt season. She gave birth to Rosie in May 2017.

TV

In 2013, she appeared on documentary ''

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'' which was shown on

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television in Ireland. In 2022, Carberry won the fifth series of ''Dancing With the Stars Ireland''. In 2022 Carberry became a coach in Ireland's Fittest Family.

Major wins

Ireland *

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-(2) Leading Run (2006), Mick the Man (2007)

References

External links

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