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Former amateur jockey Nina Carberry won Ireland's Dancing With The Stars competition on Sunday night. A winner of the Irish Grand National with Organisedconfusion (Ire) (Laveron {GB}) in 2011, Carberry partnered with Pasquale La Rocca, who was winning the RTE programme for a second consecutive season. She scored a perfect 10 from all three judges for her Viennese waltz. "I can't sum it up," Carberry told RTE. "This is an incredible show and I was delighted just to be part of it." La Rocca told Carberry after the dance, "You...

Jerry McGrath has been named the new Goffs UK Bloodstock Manager. Formerly a jumps jockey before his career ended in a fall at Lingfield a year ago, he will begin his role on Feb. 7. During his riding days, he was part of Nicky Henderson's Seven Barrows team since 2008, and won over 200 races total, including a pair at the Cheltenham Festival. During the summer months, McGrath worked with Clive Cox and was part of the team that selected Group 1 winner Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) at the Goffs...

Jumps jockey Rachael Blackmore has been nominated in the World Sport Star category at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Blackmore will be competing against tennis superstar Novak Djokovic and American football quarterback Tom Brady, boxer Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, Formula One star Max Verstappen and Jamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah. The first woman to win the Cheltenham Champion Jockey title on the back of six wins during the festival including Honeysuckle (GB) (Sulamani {Ire})'s G1 Champion Hurdle victory, Blackmore also was the first female jockey to win the G3...