07 June 2024 , 16:02
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The jockey who rode the legendary triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate has put his £3.8 million property up for sale.
Jim Culloty not only made history by matching the feat of Pat Taaffe and the great Arkle in winning the Cheltenham Festival’s most famous race three years running (2002-4), he also won the 2002 Grand National on Bindaree.
Then after retirement Culloty completed the rare feat of having won the Gold Cup as both jockey and trainer when Lord Windermere won the race in 2014.
Culloty trained Lord Windermere from the lavishly appointed Mount Corbitt House in Churchtown, Co Mallow.
Now the former jockey, who trained his last runners six seasons ago, has put the seven bedroom house, stables and land on the market, having subsequently moved back to England.
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The nearly 200 acre property includes a period house, three other separate properties, training facility for up to 50 horses, indoor school and gallops.
The stable yard where Jim Culloty trained (O’KEEFFE RESIDENTIAL)It was extensively refurbished when Culloty retired from the saddle but after his marriage ended in 2015, he moved back to Britain, using Corbitt House as a holiday home.
“It breaks my heart to sell it, but my kids are not interested,” Culloty told the Irish Independent. “They have grown up British and all of their friends and interests are there.”
Culloty, whose nephew is the three-time British champion Flat jockey Osin Murphy, said the property was “absolutely self-sufficient”.
Jim Culloty with three-time Gold Cup winner Best Mate (Popperfoto via Getty Images)“You have your staff accommodation for the horse industry and you can grow your own hay. Plus you have a vegetable garden and a water supply for the people. If you could produce your own electricity, you would actually never ever have to leave the place.
“Obviously I would love to keep a hand in at Mount Corbitt - I still love horses and racing - but it would become merely a very expensive hobby and my kids are more important. They come first.”
The property is being marketed by O'Keeffe Residential