McCoy's winning ride on Synchronised typified his career as a jockey. A specialist long-distance steeplechaser, he was best known for his performances in the 2011–2012 National Hunt season, when he won the Grade I Lexus Chase in Ireland before winning Britain's most prestigious steeplechase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, on 17 March. They say time flies, but it scarcely seems two minutes, never mind five years, since Sir Anthony McCoy bowed out of the saddle.

Based in Ireland and the UK, McCoy rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional. He said: "I actually probably thought I was going to do it in my last year riding.

McCoy, who broke 40 bones during his career is vice-president of the Injured Jockeys Fund and is likely to work to raise awareness of the organisation's work.

Click to enable/disable essential site cookies. He rode his first winner, “Legal Steps”, at Thurles on 26 March 1992 and he has never looked back.

You don't have to say it in an arrogant way, but you have to have a bit of devil, a bit of oomph and think why can't I be (champion)? [4], In 2012, McCoy won his second Cheltenham Gold Cup on Synchronised, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and owned by JP McManus, 15 years after his first Gold Cup win on Mr Mulligan. Mr Anthony McCoy.

BBC head of radio sport Richard Burgess said: "This addition means our audiences will get a regular insight from one of the sport's greats. The 2012 Grand National was a very sad affair for McCoy who saw his Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, Synchronised, euthanised after after sustaining a leg fracture incurred after he unseated the champion jockey and ran riderless before falling at the 11th fence. Just humble brilliance. [citation needed], McManus has the majority of his horses in training with ex-jockey Jonjo O'Neill who trains at the state-of-the-art training facility "Jackdaws Castle" in Gloucestershire, which is owned by McManus.

I think we can all agree that he broke all sorts of records and will go down in history as one of the greatest. From there, I thought, fuck, this horse could win.” The one still to beat was Black Apalachi, but that rival had helped force a strong pace from an early stage, a detail that had not escaped the hawk-eyed McCoy as he smuggled Don’t Push It into contention. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page.

https://www.grand-national.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/start-mccoy.jpg, https://www.grand-national.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/gn2021-national.png. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. So who could possibly have thought, nearly 40 years later, that figure would be quadrupled as AP McCoy bagged his 4,000th over jumps in Britain and Ireland with Mountain Tunes at Towcester on November 7, 2013? Last modified on Tue 14 Apr 2020 08.28 EDT. On 19 July 2014, McCoy reached a significant personal milestone by surpassing the total of 4,191 winners which friend and mentor Martin Pipe achieved as a licensed trainer before retirement in 2006. [8], By the end of the decade McCoy had set a new National Hunt record for winners in a season (253), equaled the record of five winners at the 1998 Cheltenham Festival, and became the fastest jockey to reach the 100 winner mark in a season in 2001. [28], McCoy has released five volumes of his autobiography; Real McCoy: My Life So Far (1999), McCoy (2003), A.P. Please be aware that this might heavily reduce the functionality and appearance of our site.

‘The Grand National is a Wimbledon, it’s an FA Cup,’ says AP McCoy as he recalls his win in 2010 aboard Don’t Push It. Many point to McCoy's incredible effort in getting Wichita Lineman up to win at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival as perhaps the definitive ride of the Ulsterman's career. "[34], In 2017, his wife, Chanelle McCoy was unveiled as the new dragon in RTE's Dragons' Den, replacing former dragon Eamonn Quinn.

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McCoy landed the rare Cheltenham Gold Cup/Champion Hurdle double on Mr Mulligan and Make A Stand in 1997 and the King George VI Chase on Best Mate in 2002.

The Grand National was the race that made AP wait, long after he had come to dominate jump racing by sheer force of will. McCoy said: "It's very difficult to believe it is five years - some days I think it goes slowly, but on the whole it's good and I'm very lucky.

Fittingly his farewell came on a horse called Box Office.

He won all the races that mattered and was crowned champion jockey 20 times - every year he was a professional.

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"I'm going to take some time out and won't be rushing into anything.

Binocular, Brave Inca and the ill-fated Synchronised also added championship laurels at the biggest meeting of all. McCoy's debut novel, Taking the Fall, was published in 2013.

[21] McCoy recorded winner number 4,192 by guiding the Jonjo O'Neill trained It's A Gimme to victory in the Betfred Summer Plate Listed Handicap Chase at Market Rasen Racecourse.

It was his 200th win of the season, the ninth occasion on which he had reached that landmark, and he later clarified that it would be his last such achievement.

Lots of people win the Grand National and lots of people win the Gold Cup, but lots of people don't break Sir Gordon Richards' record. McCoy broke virtually every record there was to be broken in National Hunt racing during his time, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. It was at about this point that David Casey, on Snowy Morning, noticed from a bookmaker’s board that Don’t Push It had halved in price from the morning 20-1 as casual punters lined up behind his famous rider.

Synchronised (7 March 2003 – 14 April 2012) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse.

But he said: "I think Wichita Lineman would probably be about third maybe.

Speaking recently, McCoy – who was knighted in 2016 – said: “Breaking Sir Gordon Richards’ record will always be my greatest achievement, nothing is even close.”.

He and his wife Chanelle have two children, named Eve and Archie. We use cookies to let us know when you visit our websites, how you interact with us, to enrich your user experience, and to customize your relationship with our website.

If there was unfinished business, it was McCoy's quest to ride 300 winners in a season. [22], McCoy announced live on Channel 4 after his win on Mr Mole in the Game Spirit Chase that he would retire at the end of the 2014/15 NH Season. It was during his recovery that he memorably remarked: "I think I'm unbreakable so I wasn't lying there thinking the worst, you can't think like that."

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Edredon Bleu's win in the 2000 Queen Mother Champion Chase was hailed as one of the greatest finishes of all, as McCoy's mount edged the gallant Direct Route. "You're not boasting and saying you're going to be, but you'd like to be and aim to be - because that's the best you can be. What’s the world coming to? It was my last National but was a very enjoyable one.”. Based in Ireland and the UK, McCoy rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year he was a professional.

"There's a lot of horses I wouldn't have minded another go on, but I wouldn't have liked to have been having another go on Synchronised and been trying to do the same again. Learn more . With an unparalleled determination to succeed in every race, whether it be a selling hurdle at Newton Abbot or the Cheltenham Gold Cup, McCoy rewrote virtually every record in the book, some more than once. Though he still saw himself as a jump jockey in the making, his new boss wanted him to stick to the Flat and was reluctant to let him ride over hurdles, refusing him any mounts over fences. Although his career ended with two third-places rather than a fairytale win, he was still the centre of attention at a packed Sandown Park.

We fully respect if you want to refuse cookies but to avoid asking you again and again kindly allow us to store a cookie for that. The only thing the script got wrong that afternoon on April 25, 2015 at Sandown is that the Jonjo O'Neill-trained gelding did not win. "Never a truer word has been sung," writes Andy Dunn in the Daily Mirror. "[35], Champion Jockey: 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015.

His father Peadar may have been a joiner by profession but, like many in the Emerald Isle, he kept a few horses "as a hobby", his 'hobby' horses having included future Cheltenham Festival winner Thumbs Up. McCoy won the Grand National at the fifteenth attempt, on 10 April 2010 aboard Don't Push It, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and owned by J. P. AP McCoy: 'The man in the street wants to know if you’ve won the National', since he won the Grand National on Don’t Push It, lked by a loose horse at the 19th and dropped his jockey in the ditch, another loose horse carried Clan Royal off the course, There was a lot of relief and obviously a lot of satisfaction, ing the virtual Grand National the other day.

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In 2013, McCoy reached an unprecedented milestone of 4,000 winners. McCoy rode his 3000th winner at Plumpton on the Nicky Henderson trained Restless D'Artaix in the Tyser & Co Beginners' Chase on 9 February 2009. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); “But it would never have led to people very kindly voting for me to win something like Sports Personality of the Year. Sure enough, he made it back to the saddle with a few days to spare. "I knew after winning 15 jockeys' championships that it was possible if I stayed in one piece I could win another five, but every sportsperson has a time limit. In April 2002, McCoy overtook Sir Gordon Richards’ record seasonal tally of 269 wins on Valfonic at Warwick, an achievement that helped him gain third place in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year voting. He was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010, becoming the first jockey to win the award,[5] and in December 2013 he was named RTÉ Sports Person of the Year. Now 45, the jockey who never really wanted to quit is five years into retirement and well established in a new career as a TV pundit.

By the time McCoy recovered from his leg break, he had continued to grow taller and as a result it was decided that the best option was to become a jump jockey. [CDATA[ In April 2002, McCoy overtook Sir Gordon Richards' record seasonal tally of 269 on Valfonic at Warwick, an achievement that helped him gain third place in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year voting. The wait is over for Tony McCoy on Don't Push It, Hennessy (far side) pulled it out of the fire under McCoy in 2009. Anthony Peter “A.P.” McCoy MBE is widely regarded as the greatest National Hunt jockey ever. The 2014 renewal saw him finish 3rd on Double Seven for trainer Jonjo O’Neill. All rights reserved. McCoy: My Autobiography (2011)[29] and "Winner: My Racing Life" (2015).

[11], During the 2012 Grand National, McCoy's mount Synchronised fell at Becher's Brook, the sixth fence on the first circuit.

I’d like to carry on doing something that still involves horses, although I've no aspirations to become a trainer.".



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