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A GRAND NATIONAL and Cheltenham Festival legend has spoken of his heartbreak at having to sell his sprawling £3.8million countryside home.
Jim Culloty, uncle to three-time Flat champion jockey Oisin Murphy, was front-page news when he won the world's most famous race on Bindaree in 2002.
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And his incredible racing CV included a hat-trick of Gold Cup victories on the iconic Best Mate - before going onto train winner Lord Windermere too.
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But now he's looking to land a winner of sorts off the racecourse after putting his massive seven-bedroom property on the market with a hefty price tag.
Mount Corbitt house, which also has four reception rooms and six bathrooms, encompasses 193 acres of land and a top-of-the-line equestrian facility.
Indeed, it was where Culloty trained the 2014 Gold Cup winner, ridden by Davy Russell just weeks after he was sacked from his Gigginstown role.
The former jockey bought the site around 25 years ago and, in his own words, 'went a bit mad' spending fortunes turning it into the prime property it is today.
The renovation was carried out alongside then-wife Susie, heiress to the famous Ginsters pasty empire worth an estimated £500million at the time of their split in 2015.
When asked about their separation, Irish horseman Culloty memorably told the Daily Mail at the time: "This is none of your business."
But now he has opened up to the about his decision to sell.
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He said: "The house is situated on the highest part of the site and everything about is facing the right way.
"It is surrounded by mature trees and even though you can see over them, the house cannot be seen.
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"It is hard to appreciate how quiet it is, even though it is really close to Mallow.
"After my circumstances changed in 2015 I moved back to the UK and I kept Corbitt on as a holiday home.
"But then the pandemic came along and I just stopped coming over.
"It breaks my heart to sell it, but my kids are not interested.
"They have grown up British and all of their friends and interests are there.
";If it was in Killarney, where I am from, I would keep it, but it is just that bit too far from there."
Culloty stripped the interior of the Georgian-era main building right back to carry out his renovation work.
The primary building is believed to date back to the late 1700s and offers 'commanding views over the surrounding countryside'.
There are two additional buildings for staff and Culloty says the entire site is so self-sufficent that if you could make your own electricity then you 'would actually never ever have to leave the place'.
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Culloty added: "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.”
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