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
Steve Brooks (jockey) Fisher's Sub Fleet to a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby and to fifth in the Preakness Stakes. At age forty in 1961, Steve Brooks was the leading jockey at Monmouth Park and on April 8, 1963 became only the fifth jockey in American Thoroughbred racing history to win 4,000 races. He retired in 1970, but continued working with racehorses. He made a comeback in 1975 but rode for only a short time. In 1979, while exercising a horse, Brooks was thrown to the ground and died as a result of his injuries. Steve Brooks (jockey) Steve Brooks (August 12,