He also happens to be among the most popular men in racing.It would have been easy to accuse Paul Carberry of trading on his father’s name. The jockey appeared to think he had made some sort of Faustian sacrifice.Despite their meagre physical proportions jumps jockeys are not the lightest drinkers on the planet. You could write down more from an interview with Marcel Marceau than you get from the 25-year-old, but he always says one thing. “Do you know all those terrible stories they tell about me?” he asks. “They’re all true.” They call him Alice in the weighing room but he could also quite easily be the Mad Hatter.
Paul Carberry stories are legend in racing A theme to them is drinking And we are not talking milkshake here.

When this Irishman visited Blarney Castle the stone was away having its 25,000-kiss service. When you think Carberry, you don’t have to intellectualise Just limit it to: bloody good rider, bloody good party man. AS HE CAME in after winning the Grand National on Bobbyjo it was rather odd to see Paul Carberry swinging from a bar in the weighing-room roof Usually, he’s leaning on them. After winning two Grand Slams in a row, they appear to have completely lost their way.

He had jumped great and was going well at the time.”Brendan Powell (Mudahim): “I just fell off He was making heavy weather of it. I should have pulled him up after two or three.”Timmy Murphy (Tamarindo): “He met Becher’s all wrong and that was that. He was struggling when he fell.”Richard Guest (Frazer Island): “He was cantering when he fell and we would have been in the first four.”Conor O’Dwyer (Cyborgo): “I had a good ride while it lasted. He enjoyed himself early on but he’s old and clever and wasn’t going to do anything he didn’t have to.”Tom Jenks (Commercial Artist): “He gave me a great ride for a circuit, but he has been tubed recently and gradually ran out of steam.”Sean Curran (Cavalero): “The saddle slipped. He was going very well at the time – he stays on and I’m sure we would have been in the first four.”Robert Widger (Choisty): “I had a marvellous ride. He didn’t fall, I was sandwiched.”Mick Fitzgerald (Fiddling The Facts): She gave me a dream ride and jumped superbly, but she overjumped Becher’s and paid the penalty.”Tony McCoy (Eudipe): “I don’t feel too good myself and I feel very bad for the horse.”Chris Maude (Camelot Knight): “I was gutted The poor lad just had nowhere to go and he was knocked over. He gave me a good ride but wasn’t in love with it all in the end.”Steve Wynne (Coome Hill): “He gave me a great ride but he gurgled.”Glenn Tormey (Bells Life): “They went too fast for him, he got very tired and we pulled up four out.”Adie Smith (Castle Coin): “I got knocked off about five out – two loose horses knocked me over He gave me a great ride till then and jumped well.