AP McCoy receives Guinness World Records
The 18-times Champion jockey has received 3 Guiness World Records
AP McCoy
AP McCoy OBE is the greatest National Hunt jockey of all time. He has been Champion Jockey 20 times (that’s every year since he went professional in the 1995/96 season), and has won almost every big race there is to win.
Among his most high profile winners are the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI Chase and the 2010 Grand National.
He was also named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010 and retired in April 2015. AP joined the Channel 4 Racing team in November 2015 and will be offering his professional opinion on some of the biggest race meetings in the calendar.
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Nick Scholfield's blog: racing on a Clydesdale
Nick talks about his first ever ride on a Clydesdale and jockey's high pain thresholds
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AP McCoy nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Jockey AP McCoy — who recently rode his 4,000th winner — has been nominated for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award
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Nick Scholfield's blog: a new job, a special winner and the mighty AP McCoy
Nick is over the moon about joining the team at Ditcheat, is enjoying some winners and reflects on the legend that is AP McCoy
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AP McCoy reaches 4,000th winner
H&H celebrates AP McCoy's 4,000th winner by taking a look back at his career in pictures -
Champion jockey AP McCoy's new book on sale
AP McCoy's debut racing thriller is out on 7 November
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Jockey AP McCoy's portrait to hang in gallery
A portrait of AP McCoy has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square in central London
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AP McCoy is champion jockey for 18th time
AP McCoy, Nicky Henderson, Lucy Alexander and JP McManus were all crowned champions of the 2012-13 National Hunt season
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Sprinter Sacre is supreme at Aintree
It’s the Nicky Henderson show on the second day of the Grand National meeting with four winners for the Lambourn trainer
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Cheltenham Festival: Bobs Worth wins the Gold Cup
The favourite, a 50th Festival winner for Nicky Henderson, takes a thrilling Cheltenham Gold Cup
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Jockey JT McNamara is seriously hurt after Cheltenham fall
The amateur rider is having surgery today after fracturing two verterbrae in his neck at the Cheltenham Festival on Thursday
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Champion National Hunt jockey AP McCoy to pen a thriller
Fans of 17-times champion National Hunt jockey AP McCoy are in for a treat later this year, as it has been revealed he is to write a novel
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AP McCoy dons a Christmas jumper on a Christmas jumper
AP rode Dr Livingstone, a racehorse who had been painted from neck to hoof in his own Christmas jumper, for the photoshoot publicising The Jockey Club’s racing-themed online advent calendar
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AP McCoy to help host after party at Cheltenham
Champion jockey AP McCoy will be helping host the official after party at The Open meeting at Cheltenham this weekend (16-18 November)
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Grand National start is moved in attempt to improve safety
The change is one of a number of modifications to the course that will be implemented ahead of the 2013 race
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Grand National review to be published this week
The report from the British Horseracing Authority was prompted by the death of two horses in this year's race
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Tom Symonds' racing diary: a fairy tale Cheltenham
Our young National Hunt trainer tells us the inside story of the bet of a lifetime
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H&H racing editor's blog: the Cheltenham wrap-up
Catherine Austen reflects on the highs and lows of the 2012 Cheltenham Festival
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AP McCoy wins Cheltenham Gold Cup
The record-breaking jump jockey takes National Hunt's most important prize as Kauto Star is pulled up
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Riders snubbed by BBC Sports Personality shortlist
Leading riders say they are disappointed that no equestrians have made it on to the shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year
