How old is ap 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. McCoy's winning ride on Synchronised typified his career as a jockey. Synchronised appeared outpaced during the first half of the extended 3 mile contest, however, Synchronised stayed on powerfully up the famous Cheltenham hill to pass both former winner Long Run and The Giant Bolster to land blue riband event at the Cheltenham Festival.

The horse suffered soft-tissue damage, but did not appear to have sustained serious injury. However, Synchronised continued running riderless, until attempting to jump the 11th fence where he fell and incurred a fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right-hind leg, which resulted in him being put down. McCoy has won almost every big race there is to win. He was knighted in January The nearest he had in the National were three third-place finishes, in , aboard Martin Pipe's Blowing Wind, and in on Jonjo O'Neill's joint favourite, Clan Royal, who was still traveling well when hampered by a loose horse cost any chance of victory.

McCoy was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year and in doing so became the first jockey to win the award, polling ahead of darts player Phil Taylor and Olympic heptathlete Jessica Ennis, who finished second and third place respectively. McCoy was made the bookmakers' favourite for the award after his Grand National victory, however there were concerns that those beyond the horse racing fraternity may not fully understand his incredible achievements in racing and subsequently decide to vote for other contenders from "mainstream" sports.

McCoy was retained by Irish racehorse owner, J. McManus and therefore rode all of his horses in Britain and occasionally Ireland. McCoy had previously spent seven years as Martin Pipe's first jockey and many within racing were surprised of his decision to split from the successful Pipe stable. He has won a further 10 jockey titles since their separation. He beat Richards' record of winners in a season on Valfonic at Warwick on 2 April He achieved a new high of winners, and on 27 August , at Uttoxeter, his victory on Mighty Montefalco meant he had surpassed Richard Dunwoody's all time jumps record and was now the leading jumps jockey.

He became the first jump jockey to ride 2, winners when getting Kanpai up to score at Huntingdon on 3 October McCoy's debut novel, Taking the Fall, was published in By the end of the decade McCoy had set a new National Hunt record for winners in a season , equaled the record of five winners at the Cheltenham Festival, and became the fastest jockey to reach the winner mark in a season in He went on to beat the long-standing record of Gordon Richards for the total number of winners ridden in a season, which stood since His first racing tale, Taking The Fall, featuring fictional jockey Duncan Claymore, came out in But retirement was always going to be a difficult decision.

The rider, whose biggest vice is six or seven sugars in a cup of tea on a busy racing afternoon, added: "I've never taken drink or drugs in my life - but this racing is the nearest thing I've had to a drug.

I'm a realist, but it is the worst thing trying to contemplate not riding. It is an unbearable thought. When McCoy passed the 4, winners mark, Chanelle told me she would cut up his licence if he went for 5, And his father, Peadar, said 20 titles would be a nice number to go out on.

McCoy's announcement at Newbury in February that he would retire gave people notice that time was running out before he raced for the last time, at the season finale at Sandown Park on 25 April. It was a case of catch him while you can. There won't be another like the unreal McCoy. Horse Racing Results Calendar. AP McCoy has ridden more than 4, winners during a record-breaking career Champ. Top Stories.

Live Live From the section Football. Gallagher called up as five miss out. Born : Moneyglass, County Antrim, 4 May Full name: Anthony Peter McCoy. First winner: Legal Steps at Tipperary, 26 March aged Height: 5ft Weight: 10st 5lbs. This led to a tiff with Bolger as McCoy decided to chance his arm as a National Hunt jockey in England, with jump jockeys able to carry a little more weight. You're not hard enough.

You're not tough enough to be a jockey. McCoy was picked up by legendary trainer Toby Balding to be his conditional jockey and the young Northern Irishman won the conditional jockeys' title in with a record 74 wins in his first English season. By winning the conditionals' title in such emphatic style, McCoy had shown he was a jockey on the up but one who needed a tie-in with a leading trainer to secure rides to take his career to the next level.

In stepped Devon champion trainer Martin Pipe, who saw McCoy as a good partner for his fit-as-fleas stable of jumps horses. I wouldn't have broken any of those records if it wasn't for him," McCoy told the Racing Post. McCoy reached winners on November 21, , beating Peter Scudamore's record by 30 days.

Records continued to fall for McCoy under the stewardship of Pipe. Yet Richards was a Flat jockey and to finish the season on wins over jumps was a staggering achievement for McCoy. Although winning an Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival on Well Chief for Pipe, big-race winners were beginning to dwindle and the ever-ambitious McCoy had his eye on a new direction with the respected owner JP McManus. Before he left for the new project, McCoy had beaten his idol Richard Dunwoody's record of 1, overall winners and then broken the 2, winners' mark, the spree of success down to the strong working relationship between Pipe and McCoy.

The move meant that as well as riding in the famous green and gold McManus colours, McCoy would effectively be stable jockey to Jonjo O'Neill. I'm very much looking forward to it.