# Jim Culloty

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{{Short description|Racehorse trainer}}
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'''Jim Culloty''' is a racehorse trainer and retired professional National Hunt jockey who won both the [Cheltenham Gold Cup](/source/Cheltenham_Gold_Cup) and [Grand National](/source/Grand_National) in the same season.
Culloty and Mick Fitzgerald both worked for Jackie Retter, who trained at Whitstone, near Exeter, before they went their separate ways, Culloty to work for [Henrietta Knight](/source/Henrietta_Knight_(racehorse_trainer)) while Fitzgerald went with [Nicky Henderson](/source/Nicky_Henderson).

Culloty rode forty-four winners as an amateur during the 1996 racing season, after which he turned professional. Throughout his career he won 394 races.

He is most associated with two horses, [Best Mate](/source/Best_Mate) and [Bindaree](/source/Bindaree), winning three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups on the former, and in 2002 going on to win the Grand National on the latter. He later became only the 4th person ever to ride and train a horse to the [Cheltenham Gold Cup](/source/Cheltenham_Gold_Cup) when training  [Lord Windermere](/source/Lord_Windermere) under jockey  [Davy Russell](/source/Davy_Russell).<ref>[http://www.jimculloty.net/jim_culloty_racing_stables_about_us.htm jimculloty.net] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322032742/http://www.jimculloty.net/jim_culloty_racing_stables_about_us.htm |date=2011-03-22 }}. Retrieved 29 January 2011</ref>

Culloty retired in July 2005, not long after Best Mate had suffered a fatal heart attack while being ridden by [Paul Carberry](/source/Paul_Carberry). Today he runs the J H Culloty racing stables at Mount Corbitt House in [Churchtown](/source/Churchtown%2C_County_Cork), [County Cork](/source/County_Cork), [Ireland](/source/Ireland).<ref>[http://www.jimculloty.net/index.html jimculloty.net] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322042603/http://www.jimculloty.net/index.html |date=2011-03-22 }}. Retrieved 29 January 2011</ref> and lives in [Somerby, Leicestershire](/source/Somerby%2C_Leicestershire) with his three children. He volunteers as Clerk of the Course<ref>{{cite web |title=Garthorpe |url=https://www.midlandspointing.com/course/garthorpe/ |website=Midlands Pointing |access-date=13 March 2024}}</ref> at [Garthorpe](/source/Garthorpe%2C_Leicestershire) Racecourse, near [Melton Mowbray](/source/Melton_Mowbray), for four point-to-point meetings each year.

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