Rupert "Ruby" Walsh (born on 14 May 1979 in Kill, County Kildare, Ireland) is an Irish previous rider.

He is the subsequent kid, and oldest child, of previous hero novice jockey Ted Walsh and his significant other Helen.

Walsh is the third most productive victor in British and Irish leap hustling history behind just Sir Anthony McCoy and Richard Johnson. 

Profession 

Showing ability since the beginning, Walsh won the Irish beginner title twice, in 1996/97 (matured 18) and 1997/98, preceding turning proficient.

He won the English Grand National in 2000 at his first endeavor, matured 20, on Papillon, a pony prepared by his dad and claimed by Mrs. J Maxwell Moran.

Father and child then, at that point, proceeded to win the Irish Grand National with Commanche Court that very year.

In the 2004/05 season, Walsh won three of the four Nationals: the Irish on the 2006 Grand National victor, Numbersixvalverde, the Welsh on ensuing 2007 Grand National champ Silver Birch, and the English on Hedgehunter.

He rode Cornish Rebel in the Scottish, however was beaten a short head by Joe's Edge.

In any case, he had prior accomplishment in that race on taking Control in 2002 and following the retirement in 2015 of Tony McCoy, turned into the main rider as of now riding to have won every one of the four Nationals.

Walsh has one of the most incredible Grand National records among current racers having dominated the race twice (2000, 2005), completed second once (2006), third once (2009), and fourth twice (2001, 2002). 

To date, Walsh has ridden more than 2500 champs including 59 victors at the Cheltenham Festival since his first success in 1998 on Alexander Banquet.

These incorporate the 2004 Queen Mother Champion Chase on Azertyuiop, the 2007 and 2009 Cheltenham Gold Cup on the top choice, Kauto Star, and two resulting Queen Mother achievements in 2008 and 2009 on the splendid Master Minded.

He additionally won both the 2006 Tingle Creek Chase and King George VI Chase on Kauto Star. He rehashed the King George accomplishment, again on Kauto Star, in 2007 (only days subsequent to getting back from injury), 2008, and 2009 when Kauto Star won astonishingly by 36 lengths.

He recovered King George VI Chase in 2011 onboard Kauto Star after Long Run dominated the race in 2010. He won the Hennessy Gold Cup twice, in 2003 on Strong Flow, and on later occasions, 2009 with Denman.

He likewise won the Whitbread Gold Cup twice, in 2001 and 2003 (the last option when it was run as the Attheraces Gold Cup), the twice on Ad Hoc. In 2007, Walsh won the debut British Horseracing Board Jockeys' Order of Merit grant. 

Walsh's new predominance of the racers' title in Ireland is all the more momentous given that for over ten years he had a one-of-a-kind riding course of action with two amazing pens, one on one or the other side of the Irish Sea.

Situated in Calverstown, County Kildare, where he resides with his better half Gillian, he rides transcendently for Willie Mullins in Ireland.

Once in the past he additionally spent a significant extent of his time riding in England for Somerset-based top dog mentor Paul Nicholls, the previous coach of Kauto Star. Walsh likewise takes a periodic ride for his dad, Ted, and an assortment of other Irish coaches. 

In January 2007, Walsh accomplished the quickest ever century of champs in Irish leaps dashing history onboard Bluestone Lad at Gowran Park.

He finished the 2006/07 season with a joined absolutely in Ireland and the UK of 198 victors, higher than some other rider from either country that year.

(This all-out was subsequently expanded to 200 on the preclusion of two ponies for positive tests to restricted substances. In the two occurrences, Walsh had ridden the accordingly advanced other participants.)

He rehashed this accomplishment in 2007/08, riding his 200th victor on Andreas at Sandown on his penultimate ride of the period. He rode his 1,000th Irish champ, Rare Article, at Sligo in May 2008. 

At the 2009 Cheltenham Festival Walsh rode a record-breaking seven champs over the four days. He equaled that record at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival.

On the second day of the 2010 celebration, he rode Sanctuaire to triumph in the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices Handicap Hurdle and accordingly turned into the rider with the most successes throughout the entire existence of the Cheltenham celebration. 

In March 2011, Walsh rode Hurricane Fly to triumph in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, completing in front of Peddlers Cross and Oscar Whisky. It was Walsh's first triumph in the component race of the first day of the season at the Cheltenham Festival. 

He dominated his 2,500 race on Au Quart De Tour at Gowran park on 20 January 2016. 

Starting in 2019, Walsh is the Festival's best rider with 59 successes and has won the main rider's honor multiple times inside the most recent fourteen years. In August 2015 Walsh won the Australian Grand National on Bashboy. 

On 1 May 2019, Walsh declared his retirement from dashing with prompt impact following a vocation traversing 24 years. The declaration was made after he rode Kemboy to triumph in the Punchestown Gold Cup. It was the 213th Grade One win for Walsh. 

Injuries

In the same way as other leap jockeys, Walsh has experienced various genuine wounds, the most exceedingly awful of which was a wrecked leg supported in 1999 at Pardubice in the Czech Republic, a course he was visiting to contend in the renowned Great Pardubice Steeplechase.

He later broke a similar leg while tutoring a pony and was down and out for a sum of five months that season, yet recuperated on schedule to accomplice Papillon to win his first Grand National. 

Walsh has additionally broken his wrist twice, disengaged one hip and broke the other, broke his elbow, disjoined the two shoulders, and experienced broken and seriously swollen vertebrae.

A fall at the Paddy Power meeting at Cheltenham in November 2008 brought about Walsh having his spleen eliminated in a crisis activity. He got back to the seat only 27 days after the fact. 

Walsh cracked his left lower leg throughout a tumble from the doomed Imperial Hills, prepared by Willie Mullins at Killarney in May 2009. During his time off he was available to saddle Sesenta for Willie Mullins in the Ascot Stakes at Royal Ascot. 

During the approach to the 2010 Grand National he broke his left arm after a tumble from Celestial Halo. His pony fell and the two of them appeared to have away sound, yet a horse racing behind them arrived on his arm while he was on the ground, breaking it in two spots.

Walsh experienced a physical issue in a similar race in 2012 after a tumble from Zarkander which administered him out of the 2012 Grand National. 

On the last day of the 2014 Cheltenham Festival Walsh supported a compound break of the humerus in a fall in the Triumph Hurdle. 

On the day preceding the 2016 Grand National Walsh cracked his wrist in the wake of falling in the Topham pursue on Blood Cotil. 

On 18 November 2017 Walsh cracked his right leg in a fall at Punchestown and didn't return until 3 March 2018. On day two of the 2018 Cheltenham Festival Walsh disturbed his late 2017 physical issue. 

Coach split 

In May 2013 it was declared that Walsh and Paul Nicholls were to part after Walsh's choice to invest more energy in Ireland with his young family.

Anyway, they separated on great conditions and Walsh has kept on riding an intermittent Nicholls horse, remembering winning for Al Ferof in the Grade 2 Amlin Chase at Ascot in November 2014. 

Individual life 

Walsh wedded Gillian Doran in July 2006. Their first youngster, Isabelle, was brought into the world in October 2009. The couple has proceeded to have three additional little girls, Elsa, Gemma, and Erica. 

His sister Katie Walsh is additionally one of the top female racers. 

His sibling Ted Walsh Junior is hitched to a female rider, Nina Carberry.