Tony McCoy
Category: UK Sports
Tony McCoy, 13-time champion jockey, finally reached his 3000th career jumps win at Plumpton aboard Restless D’Artaix with a narrow victory to the delight of his supporters and trainer Nicky Henderson, although breaking records is not something new for the jockey.
The 34-year-old Irishman has already become the all-time most successful jumps jockey in Britain when on 27 August 2002, he beat Richard Dunwoody’s total winners of 1,699 when riding on Mighty Montefalco at Uttoxeter. He has also beaten Sir Gordon Richards’ record tally of 269 winners in a season on the horse Valfonic at Warwick on April 2, 2002.
McCoy was born in County Antrim in 1974, he began his career on the Flat races and gained his first winner, Legal Steps, at Thurles in March 1992. His first jumps winner came with the horse Riszard, who was also his first National Hunt ride, at Gowran in April 1994. He then decided to link up with Toby Balding for the 1994-95 season and rode his first winner in England on Chickabiddy at Exeter on September 7, 1994.
He then went on to have a magnificent partnership with Martin Pipe, after eight years of working with Pipe they decided to part company and he was quickly appointed as a retained jockey for millionaire owner JP McManus in 2004.
In a glittering career, McCoy has won the King George, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle.The only thing left for McCoy to win is the Grand National which continues to be elusive to him in his unrelentless quest for the big-race triumphs.
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