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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lhvl4Ttk2g 
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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.
It takes great skill to know when to attack and how top place and pace yourself over a distance
(Apart from one).
This should be the one.
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.