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 de Quimper Escargot de Quimper Elona quimperiana, common name the escargot de Quimper ("Quimper snail"), is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Elonidae. "Elona" is a monotypic genus, i.e. it contains only one species, "Elona quimperiana". The specific name comes from the city of Quimper in Brittany, France. This snail is mentioned in annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive. "Elona quimperiana" was originally described (under the name "Helix quimperiana") by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac in 1821. Férussac's original text (the type description) reads in the French language as follows: Which means