Tommy Carberry Tommy Carberry Tommy Carberry (15 September 1941 – 12 July 2017) was a National Hunt jockey who was twice overall champion Irish jockey and five times champion national hunt jockey. He rode in his first race in 1958, and was crowned champion apprentice in 1959. He retired in 1982, after which he began training. He won the Grand National as a jockey on L'Escargot in 1975 and as a trainer with Bobbyjo in 1999. Carberry also rode L'Escargot to successive Cheltenham Gold Cups in 1970 and 1971. In 1970 Carberry rode L'Escargot to victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup by
Escargot have been excavated yielding physical evidence of culinary use of several species of snails. The Romans in particular are known to have considered escargot an elite food, as noted in the writings of Pliny. The edible species "Otala lactea" has been recovered from the Roman-era city Volubilis in present-day Morocco. More recently, African land snails have been known to be edible. In the late 1980s, escargots represented a $300-million-a-year business in the United States. May 24 has been designated "National Escargot Day" in the United States. In French cuisine, the snails are typically purged, killed, removed from their shells, and