National win clinches ninth NH award for Nina Carberry

NINA CARBERRY claimed her ninth National Hunt award when she was named leading lady rider for the seventh year in succession at the Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare on Sunday.

Carberry became the fourth member of her family to ride an Irish Grand National winner when on Organisedconfusion, trained by her uncle Arthur Moore, she joined her father Tommy and brothers Paul and Philip on the list of Carberry family members to win the National.

Nineteen-year-old Paul Townend took the champion jockey award while Helen Walsh, mother of Ruby and Katie and wife of trainer Ted, was honoured with the National Hunt special award. A successful horse-owner in her own right, Helen was acknowledged for her role in the successes of the Walsh family.