# Philip Carberry

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{{Short description|Irish jockey}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox horseracing personality
|name  = Philip Carberry
|image = 
|caption  = 
|occupation  = [Jockey](/source/Jockey)
|birth_place = [Ireland](/source/Ireland)
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1980|11|01}}
|death_date = 
|career wins = 
|race = Champion Hurdle, Irish Grand National, Grand Steeple Chase de Paris
|awards = 
|honours = 
|horses = Sublimity, Point Barrow, Princesse D'Anjou
}}

'''Philip Carberry''' (born 1 November 1980)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Racing Post|url=https://www.racingpost.com/news/philip-carberry-among-those-celebrating-today/406769|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.racingpost.co.uk}}</ref> is a retired Irish national hunt jockey.

He is a member of the Carberry racing dynasty with his father [Tommy Carberry](/source/Tommy_Carberry) a Gold Cup and Grand National winner, later a trainer.  Philip's brother [Paul Carberry](/source/Paul_Carberry) is a two time Irish Champion Jockey meanwhile sister [Nina Carberry](/source/Nina_Carberry) was a hugely successful amateur jockey.

==Racing career==
Philip rode as an amateur in 1997 before turning professional the following season.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carberry Racing|url=https://www.carberry-racing.com/projects|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.carberry-racing.com}}</ref>

He has won many top level races around the world, including the 2006 [Irish Grand National](/source/Irish_Grand_National) with Point Barrow and the [2007 Champion Hurdle](/source/2007_Champion_Hurdle) with Sublimity.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Irish Independent|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/another-carberry-to-prove-point-26286672.html|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.independent.ie}}</ref>  During the same Cheltenham Festival, Carberry added another big winner with Pedrobob in the [County Hurdle](/source/County_Hurdle).

Following this he moved to [Chantilly](/source/Chantilly%2C_Oise) in France linking up with trainer Francois Cottin.  Additional success followed in France with two victories in the Group 1 Grand Steeplechase de Paris on Princess D'Anjou.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Racing Post Results Service|url=https://www.racingpost.com/results/205/auteuil/2006-11-05/420111|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.racingpost.co.uk}}</ref> Winning the race for the first time in 2006, Carberry was the first overseas jockey to win the race since Fred Winter on Mandarin in 1962.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Racing Post|url=https://www.racingpost.com/news/champion-hurdle-winning-rider-retires-to-support-wife-louisas-training-career/289427|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.racingpost.co.uk}}</ref>

Carberry retired in 2017 following a career where he won over 300 races.  He began supporting wife Louisa with their training operation in France.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jockeypedia|url=https://sites.google.com/view/jockeypediatrial/carberry-philip?authuser=0|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.sites.google.com/view/jockeypediatrial}}</ref>

==Cheltenham Festival Winners (2)==
* [Champion Hurdle](/source/Champion_Hurdle) - Sublimity (2007)
* [County Hurdle](/source/County_Hurdle) - Pedrobob (2007)

==Major Wins==
{{flagicon|UK}} '''[Great Britain](/source/Great_Britain)'''
* [Champion Hurdle](/source/Champion_Hurdle) - (1) Sublimity (2007)

{{flagicon|FRA}} '''[France](/source/France)'''
* [Grand Steeplechase de Paris](/source/Grand_Steeplechase_de_Paris) - (2) Princess D'Anjou (2006, 2008)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:1980 births
Category:Living people
Category:Irish jockeys
Category:People from Ashbourne, County Meath
Category:Equestrians from County Meath

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