By Simon Jackson. Richard Johnson was crowned Stobart Champion Jump Jockey for the first time at Sandown Park on Saturday after finishing more than 100 winners clear of his nearest rival. Johnson rode 235 winners, 105 more than runner-up Aidan Coleman (130), in the season that commenced on April 26 2015 and culminated on April…
By Simon Jackson. Top trainer Paul Nicholls has paid tribute to multiple champion jumps jockey AP McCoy who received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List. The now Sir Anthony McCoy retired from race-riding in April 2015 and received the honour following a hugely successful career that included victories in the Cheltenham Gold Cup…
By Simon Jackson. Champion jumps jockey AP McCoy who retired in April will receive a lifetime achievement award at the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year show in Belfast on Sunday. The 41-year-old was champion jockey for 20 successive seasons and set the standard throughout his sublime career that included becoming the first jockey to…
By Simon Jackson. Both flat and national hunt racing will have new champion jockeys this season following the retirement of reigning flat champion Richard Hughes at Goodwood on Saturday. Hughes called time on his superb career in the saddle one day shy of 27 years since he rode his first winner on Viking Melody in…
By Simon Jackson. Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton makes her debut as an amateur jockey at Newbury today where she rides Mighty Mambo in the George Frewer Charity Race. The double gold cycling champion has her first ride in public in the one mile and five furlong contest at 5.55pm that has attracted a field…
By Simon Jackson at Sandown Park. AP McCoy retires on Saturday. We all have our favourite memories of the multiple champion jockey and I consider myself fortunate to have spoken to him many times when interviewing on racecourses. Here is my favourite memory of the champion, taken from an interview at Fontwell Park on the…
By Simon Jackson at Sandown Park. Tony McCoy retires from race-riding on Saturday at Sandown where he will be presented with his 20th jockeys’ championship title by Arsenal legend Ian Wright. Wright helped the Gunners to secure a host of top honours during his seven years with the north Londoners in the late 1990s, where…
By Simon Jackson. AP McCoy was honoured tonight when the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool was lit up with a good luck message ahead of his final ride in the Crabbie’s Grand National on Saturday. The famous building was illuminated with an image of one of McCoy’s finest moments – winning the world famous Grand…
By Simon Jackson. Betfred, the official betting partner of the Crabbie’s Grand National, quote Shutthefrontdoor at 8-1 to be sent off the shortest priced favourite of the modern era when he lines up at Aintree on Saturday week. The eight-year-old, who heads the Grand National betting at 7-1 and is the likely mount of AP…
By Simon Jackson. Irish Hennessy Gold Cup winner Carlingford Lough was on Tuesday the most high profile of the 13 horses scratched from the £1million Crabbie’s Grand National at Aintree on April 11. The withdrawals at the latest scratchings’ stage leave a field of 74 horses still in contention for a start in the world’s…
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