A.P. McCoy
Anthony Peter “A.P.” McCoy MBE is widely regarded as the greatest jump jockey ever. He rode his first winner, “Legal Steps”, at Thurles on 26 March 1992 and he has never looked back. He has broken numerous records including a record 74 winners in 2004. The following season he was champion jockey, a feat that he has repeated in each of the twelve following seasons. During that run he has also set a new National Hunt record for winners in a season (253) and also become the fastest jockey to reach the 1000 winner mark.
McCoy beat Sir Gordon’s record of 269 winners in a season on Valfonic at Warwick on 2 April 2002, and he went on to end the campaign on 289 which also meant he had surpassed Richard Dunwoody’s record of all time jumps winners and was now the leading jumps rider of all time.
Winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase and King George VI Chase McCoy has few targets left to chase, to ride 300 winners in a season and to win the Grand National, which he finally achieved in 2011 on Ballabriggs. He is retained by the Irish millionaire and avid horse-owner, J. P. McManus, and normally rides for the ex-jockey Jonjo O’Neill’s stable.
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I never said anything like that in the article obviously some other bright spark writes the headlinesJanuary 21, 2012 - 9:55 am- What a stupid headline in my telegraph column today "I can't bear the thought of another fall" What a load of s..t as I never saidJanuary 21, 2012 - 9:51 am
