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AP McCoy

Absurdistan
Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
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Up to 3998 winners after today. Will probably hit 4000 this week. An amazing achievement rarely matched in any sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lhvl4Ttk2g
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Agreed. Powell out, nowhere near 3998 wins.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    Works his nuts off every day up and down the country. Got a lot of respect for him and pretty much all jockeys in fact.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,857
    Probably the only major sport that I don't like. Fair play to him though, always seems to have the respect of his peers.
  • pettgra
    pettgra Posts: 1,572
    There was a meeting in Sandown a couple of years ago. They bussed a load of students in to do the dogsbody work.
    At the end of the day AP walked up to my son and tipped him 20 quid. I said did you get it signed as a memento. No he said, I spent it on beer. Hmmm, students eh.
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,161
    Ive got Billy no name in the first so hopefully he picks it up in the other 2 he is in.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,902
    greatest ever jump jockey
  • jblockmatt
    jblockmatt Posts: 369
    Agree he is the best jockey no doubt,but the bookies love him as well.You would be down£70 to alevel £1 stake so far this season and that is with a 26% strike rate.Nearly every horse he rides is short in the market as the bookies make sure they have no big liabilities on him.Still he does not make the prices and good look to him when he reaches that milestone which wiil take some beating.Incidentely the top five jockeys all show a loss which shows you what you are up against.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    sorry........just don't get it. Its not as if HE is doing the running & jumping. All he has to do is fecking sit on a horse !!!
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,270
    Golfie you could have sat on all 3998 of his winners and wouldn't have won a single one, in fact I'd be surprised if you would stay one once.

    It takes great skill to know when to attack and how top place and pace yourself over a distance
  • jblockmatt
    jblockmatt Posts: 369
    sam3110 said:

    Golfie you could have sat on all 3998 of his winners and wouldn't have won a single one, in fact I'd be surprised if you would stay one once.

    It takes great skill to know when to attack and how top place and pace yourself over a distance

    Not to mention pretty much putting your health very much at risk every time.
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Just mentioned it on ITV news. Referred to all his broken bones, no teeth & the fact that he hardly eats. He eats jelly beans for lunch. Everyone's in awe they said.

    (Apart from one).
  • Sonicstud85
    Sonicstud85 Posts: 2,161
    he came 2nd in his first of 3... will do well to get 4000 now
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,982
    golfaddick said:

    sorry........just don't get it. Its not as if HE is doing the running & jumping. All he has to do is fecking sit on a horse !!!

    Oh if it's that easy then I'll give it a go.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,741
    golfaddick said:

    sorry........just don't get it. Its not as if HE is doing the running & jumping. All he has to do is fecking sit on a horse !!!

    You try it !
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Well Hello There (his final ride today) is currently my favourite name for a NH horse. Just try saying it in a slightly lounge lizard way.......
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    1 away now.
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    Seen ap ride many winners at cheltenham and elsewhere, class act and tough as they come.
  • northstandsteve
    northstandsteve Posts: 14,329
    Just a shame he has never got to partner , the real class horses during his career on a regular basis, stable jockey for Martin Pipe for a number of years quantit rather than quality and the stable jockey to JP, no real stand out horses since Istibraaq. Great great mně pro mě though.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345
    Hot favourite in the 3.10 at Towcester.

    This should be the one.
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,166
    and hes done it! A messy finish there
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  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,713
    Classic AP. Well done mate.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345
    Just got there. 4000 winners
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    thank gawd for that !!! .. next 1,000 please Mr McC
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    Interview with him on R5L last night, amazed at the amount of broken bones he has suffered.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    McCoy is appearing in ads for bookmakers William Hill .. surely this is a conflict of interest, a jockey taking money either direct or indirectly from a bookie for whatever purpose
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Hit 200 winners for the season today. Legend.
  • Frontline9
    Frontline9 Posts: 764
    Not a fan of the man personally. He drops well too many of his rides out the back for me to be backing them. Also, without denying he is evidently a good jockey, I'm pretty sure there's 4 or 5 other jockeys who would have notched up his tally of victories also given the horses and rides he gets everyday, mainly from JP. Furthermore, I do not believe he's anywhere near as strong as 2 or maybe 3 jockeys from Ireland that don't ride here Mon-Fri, if they rode here when Mccoy did with mounts that were rated the same, I'm sure AP wouldn't look as good as he currently does. Just my opinion but can't knock the winners he does get
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    Frontline9 said:

    Not a fan of the man personally. He drops well too many of his rides out the back for me to be backing them. Also, without denying he is evidently a good jockey, I'm pretty sure there's 4 or 5 other jockeys who would have notched up his tally of victories also given the horses and rides he gets everyday, mainly from JP. Furthermore, I do not believe he's anywhere near as strong as 2 or maybe 3 jockeys from Ireland that don't ride here Mon-Fri, if they rode here when Mccoy did with mounts that were rated the same, I'm sure AP wouldn't look as good as he currently does. Just my opinion but can't knock the winners he does get

    Have to disagree.
    The problem with Mccoy is that his rides get overbet.
    Thats because the guy has the ability to coax a horse to win when it shouldn't.

  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,784
    Absurdistan said:

    Frontline9 said:

    Not a fan of the man personally. He drops well too many of his rides out the back for me to be backing them. Also, without denying he is evidently a good jockey, I'm pretty sure there's 4 or 5 other jockeys who would have notched up his tally of victories also given the horses and rides he gets everyday, mainly from JP. Furthermore, I do not believe he's anywhere near as strong as 2 or maybe 3 jockeys from Ireland that don't ride here Mon-Fri, if they rode here when Mccoy did with mounts that were rated the same, I'm sure AP wouldn't look as good as he currently does. Just my opinion but can't knock the winners he does get

    Have to disagree.
    The problem with Mccoy is that his rides get overbet.
    Thats because the guy has the ability to coax a horse to win when it shouldn't.

    Horses for courses, eh?
  • Frontline9
    Frontline9 Posts: 764
    Absurdistan said:

    Frontline9 said:

    Not a fan of the man personally. He drops well too many of his rides out the back for me to be backing them. Also, without denying he is evidently a good jockey, I'm pretty sure there's 4 or 5 other jockeys who would have notched up his tally of victories also given the horses and rides he gets everyday, mainly from JP. Furthermore, I do not believe he's anywhere near as strong as 2 or maybe 3 jockeys from Ireland that don't ride here Mon-Fri, if they rode here when Mccoy did with mounts that were rated the same, I'm sure AP wouldn't look as good as he currently does. Just my opinion but can't knock the winners he does get

    Have to disagree.
    The problem with Mccoy is that his rides get overbet.
    Thats because the guy has the ability to coax a horse to win when it shouldn't.

    That's because most people who don't know as much about racing would turn up at the track and just see AP McCoy and back it, or punters who follow him everywhere he goes. He drops well too many of his rides out the back and the occasional one looks an absolute belter of a ride because he's put himself in that position in the first place. If that's instructions from JP or AP making it up himself, i'm not a fan of it.

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