NINA Carberry was honoured at the Irish Times Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year awards recently where Annalise Murphy won the overall award and Sonia O’Sullivan received an outstanding achievement award.

Carberry won the Foxhunter Chase on the Enda Bolger-trained On The Fringe, for the second year running, making it three victories in the race in all and six career victories at the Cheltenham Festival.

The win earned her the Sportswoman of the Month award for March 2016.

Nina boasts an enviable record at the awards having won her first Sportswoman of the Month award in 2005 when she became the first female jockey to win at Cheltenham in 18 years.

In 2011 she was The Irish Times Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year in after she became only the second woman to win the Irish Grand National which she did on Organisedconfusion.