Cheltenham award for Carberry
Nina Carberry has been named as the winner of Cheltenham’s award for ’The Outstanding Contribution made by a Lady to Jump Racing’.
Carberry partnered her first winner at the Festival meeting aboard Dabiroun in the 2005 Fred Winter Juvenile Novices’ Handicap Hurdle while she has won the latest two renewals of the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase, partnering Heads Onthe Ground in 2007 and Garde Champetre in 2008.
Carberry said “I’m thrilled to win this award, especially as it comes at the Festival, which is the pinnacle of our sport. To be chosen ahead of the other nominees is a real honour.”
Trainers Sally Alner, Henrietta Knight and Venetia Williams, former trainer Jenny Pitman and Carrie Humble, founder and director of the Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Centre, were also shortlisted for the prize.
