Back
Ambassadors

AP

McCoy

AP McCoy won almost every major race in his career including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Champion Hurdle, the Queen Mother Champion Chase, the King George VI Chase and – at the 15th attempt – the Grand National in 2010. He retired in 2015 and was knighted a year later.

Northern Irish jockey A.P.McCoy is one of the finest riders ever to take to the saddle.
Competing over fences, he rode a record 4,358 winners, and was Champion Jockey in the United Kingdom a record 20 consecutive times - every year he was a professional from 1995/96. He also had the most wins in a season with 289 in 2002.
Named Anthony Peter - but known universally as A P – he was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and rode his first winner at Thurles in Ireland in March 1992, aged 17.
His success soon led to him riding in England, where he had his first winner at Exeter in September 1994.  The following season he became champion jockey for the first time, the first of a succession of honours. By the end of the decade he had equalled the record of five winners at the Cheltenham Festival and had become the fastest jockey to reach 1,000 winners.
McCoy, who had won almost every major race in his career such as the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Champion Hurdle, the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the King George VI Chase, was short of one significant achievement until 2010, that of being the winning jockey of the Grand National, the race regarded around the world as the blue riband of horse racing over fences.  However that omission was rectified when he achieved his goal and at the 15th attempt won the Grand National at Aintree, Liverpool, on Don’t Push It.

 

Email Sign up

Email Sign-up

Sign up for all things Laureus

Get regular updates throughout the year