Colin Phillips
At the Start
.............not indestructible, broken ribs at Taunton today.
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McCOY........
- Thread starter Colin Phillips
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EC1
On a break
they will need a welder though
Tanlic
Senior Jockey
I've broken a few ribs in my time. Thankfully they weren't mine :lol:
How long is AP likely to be out?
How long is AP likely to be out?
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Bruce_Savage
Guest
I have to agree, I've had the £1.29 Tescos Value BBQ ribs break on me before and it's qutie dangerous, in fact I've reported them for it.
Roddy Owen
At the Start
EC1
On a break
he'll just have to not sneeze then
chroniclandlord
Senior Jockey
McCoy is a man on a mission to reach 4,000 jump-winner milestone
By Marcus Townend ( Daily Mail )
The answer is infinitely more predictable than any of the outcomes of the 27 fiercely contested races at next week's Cheltenham Festival. 'Most days … I'd like to tell you I don't, but I do,' says AP McCoy.
The question?
How often do you think of reaching the fast-approaching 4,000 jump-winner milestone? 'That's the way I am,' adds McCoy. 'It is my ambition more than anything. Hopefully, if I have a bit of luck, stay healthy and keep working hard it might happen – but it is a bit off yet.'
How often do you think of reaching the fast-approaching 4,000 jump-winner milestone? 'That's the way I am,' adds McCoy. 'It is my ambition more than anything. Hopefully, if I have a bit of luck, stay healthy and keep working hard it might happen – but it is a bit off yet.'
In reality, that 'bit' is now down to only 140, after three wins this week took McCoy's tally to 3,860. And each one will be mentally ticked off by the man who has been champion jump jockey for 17 consecutive seasons.
In a week when the attitude and fitness of Britain's best-known footballer, Wayne Rooney, has been debated, the country's most self-motivated, some would argue self-obsessed, sportsman has continued his march through history.
Were this not 38-year-old McCoy, it would be scarcely believable that it is little over four years since he became the first jump jockey to ride 3,000 winners aboard Restless D'Artaix on a muddy February afternoon at Plumpton.
Were this not 38-year-old McCoy, it would be scarcely believable that it is little over four years since he became the first jump jockey to ride 3,000 winners aboard Restless D'Artaix on a muddy February afternoon at Plumpton.
The pace has not slackened despite increasing family distractions – wife Chanelle is expecting the couple's second child to add to daughter Eve – and the crushing blows during the last 12 months which saw the deaths of Synchronised, his 2012 Gold Cup winner, and exciting Champion Hurdle hope Darlan.
'That's tough. You get attached to horses. I'd ridden Synchronised for years and his mother, Mayasta, was the first winner I ever rode for JP McManus in 1996,' McCoy adds.
'Whether it is physical injuries or mental torture – the most difficult thing in sport is keeping your head right, but you have to get on with it.
'I've had good friends in the weighing room who have suffered fatal injuries so you have to put it in perspective. Sadly, that is the tough thing about this sport.
'But whatever sport you are in, your appetite for success shouldn't need feeding. If it is your living, you are a very lucky person.
'I've never felt my appetite needed feeding, maybe even the opposite.
'I am proud of what I have done but I don't like thinking about it – it's in the past.
'Whether it is physical injuries or mental torture – the most difficult thing in sport is keeping your head right, but you have to get on with it.
'I've had good friends in the weighing room who have suffered fatal injuries so you have to put it in perspective. Sadly, that is the tough thing about this sport.
'But whatever sport you are in, your appetite for success shouldn't need feeding. If it is your living, you are a very lucky person.
'I've never felt my appetite needed feeding, maybe even the opposite.
'I am proud of what I have done but I don't like thinking about it – it's in the past.
'I still think my greatest achievement was beating Sir Gordon Richards' record of 269 wins in a season (in 2002) because of who he was – the most successful jockey ever.
'But there is always someone who might be better, someone who is going to be more successful. That's just life.'
You have to go back to 1998 for the last time McCoy was top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival.
In the intervening Festivals, Ruby Walsh has emerged top rider six times and now leads AP 34-27 in Festival wins.
Walsh is favourite to head the rankings again but McCoy, with a squad of promising young horses owned by McManus to call on, has been backed to beat him.
'I'd love to be top jockey at the Festival – it's been a while. I thought I had good rides last year when I had two winners and was a bit unlucky,' he says.
'But no-one has a divine right to win there – not even a champion jockey. It's a level playing field and you need luck.
'You go round there in 25-runner races and, to be honest, you don't see what is going on in front of you sometimes. You might not see a hurdle.'
McCoy, who could ride outsider Sunnyhillboy in Friday's Gold Cup, is trying to inflict a first steeplechase defeat on wonder horse Sprinter Sacre in Wednesday's Queen Mother Champion Chase.
He rides Sprinter Sacre's Nicky Henderson-trained stablemate and reigning champion chaser Finian's Rainbow, and says: 'Sprinter Sacre is a fantastic horse – he may be the best two-mile chaser we ever see.
'Finian's Rainbow hasn't performed at all this season but if he ran to the form of his Champion Chase last season, he'd probably give Sprinter Sacre as much to do as any horse has ever done.
'You have to make it as difficult as possible for him to win, however hard that may be.' Stopping McCoy winning hasn't been easy.
Every success is a new record for the most successful jump jockey and he also has the target of another old ally, trainer Martin Pipe, within his sights.
'Martin trained 4,182 winners. He says there's no chance I'll catch him and he will renew his licence if I get close. But he did point out to me recently that his actual number of jump winners was 3,929.'
That's sixty nine to go, then.
Better send off for those trainer application forms, Martin.
You have to go back to 1998 for the last time McCoy was top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival.
In the intervening Festivals, Ruby Walsh has emerged top rider six times and now leads AP 34-27 in Festival wins.
Walsh is favourite to head the rankings again but McCoy, with a squad of promising young horses owned by McManus to call on, has been backed to beat him.
'I'd love to be top jockey at the Festival – it's been a while. I thought I had good rides last year when I had two winners and was a bit unlucky,' he says.
'But no-one has a divine right to win there – not even a champion jockey. It's a level playing field and you need luck.
'You go round there in 25-runner races and, to be honest, you don't see what is going on in front of you sometimes. You might not see a hurdle.'
McCoy, who could ride outsider Sunnyhillboy in Friday's Gold Cup, is trying to inflict a first steeplechase defeat on wonder horse Sprinter Sacre in Wednesday's Queen Mother Champion Chase.
He rides Sprinter Sacre's Nicky Henderson-trained stablemate and reigning champion chaser Finian's Rainbow, and says: 'Sprinter Sacre is a fantastic horse – he may be the best two-mile chaser we ever see.
'Finian's Rainbow hasn't performed at all this season but if he ran to the form of his Champion Chase last season, he'd probably give Sprinter Sacre as much to do as any horse has ever done.
'You have to make it as difficult as possible for him to win, however hard that may be.' Stopping McCoy winning hasn't been easy.
Every success is a new record for the most successful jump jockey and he also has the target of another old ally, trainer Martin Pipe, within his sights.
'Martin trained 4,182 winners. He says there's no chance I'll catch him and he will renew his licence if I get close. But he did point out to me recently that his actual number of jump winners was 3,929.'
That's sixty nine to go, then.
Better send off for those trainer application forms, Martin.
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Euronymous
Senior Jockey
granger
Senior Jockey
Why the nudity I wonder
Euronymous
Senior Jockey
I think they did a sexy set on a female jockey before the National. Can't remember her name.
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trudij
Senior Jockey
sod the nudity - why on earth stick him in front of a urinal??!!!
Euronymous
Senior Jockey
I think that's Choc.
granger
Senior Jockey
Can sadly confirm that it is