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
Eddie Dempsey Meath. Eddie Dempsey Eddie Dempsey (1911 - 7 February 1989) was an Irish National Hunt racing jockey, during the 1930s and 1940s. He was born in County Meath in 1911. He rode Caughoo to victory in the 1947 Grand National, and Prince Regent in the Enniskerry Hurdle in 1941. In the 1947 Grand National, the jockey in second place (Daniel McCann) accused him of cheating by taking a shortcut in the fog, leading to the pair exhanging blows before the matter was settled in court. He retired at the end of the 1950 season and lived in Donaghmore House in