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
Juan Gonzalez (jockey) Juan Gonzalez (jockey) Juan T. Gonzalez (February 22, 1948 - July 5, 1975) was a Mexican-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing who died in a racing accident at the Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. A report on the accident published by the St. Joseph, Missouri "Gazette" stated that Gonzalez had "virtually dominated Thoroughbred racing in Northern California since he rose to prominence in the late 1960s" and that he "rode more winners at Northern California tracks during the past 10 years than any other jockey." In 1969, Juan Gonzalez became the first jockey