Winner: My Racing Life

McCoy, A. P.

ISBN 10: 1409162397 / ISBN 13: 9781409162391

Published by Orion, 2015

About this Item

Light shelfwear. Flat signed to publisher plate pasted to fly title. Content unread. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 59046

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Winner: My Racing Life
• Publisher: Orion
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409162397
• ISBN 13: 9781409162391
• Binding: Hard
• Condition: Near Mint
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Mint
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Autobiography & Biography
  • Sport & Games

About this title

Synopsis

At Sandown Park on the 25 April 2015, riding Box Office, two jumps from home, the realisation hit me. This is it. This is really the end.

I was now a matter of seconds away from the moment all the numbers stopped for ever. My career total of National Hunt winners would remain at 4,348 after this, my 17,546th ride. All the stats, the numbers that had governed my life for the last two decades, they were just a few hundred yards from being stilled for ever. My whole career, my whole adult life, had been built on making those numbers click upwards as fast as I could, but in a couple of furlongs they would never move again.

Deciding to retire was the most difficult decision I've ever had to make. Fortunately I was able to go out at the very top, and being able to say that makes me a very, very lucky man indeed. And now, in this book, I've been able to look back over my entire career - both good and bad moments - and see it in its entirety: the biggest wins, the disappointments, the injuries and the tragedies, my wonderful family, and the amazing horses and the fantastic personalities I've worked with.

18,000 people turned up to that final race at Sandown, and I can now look back on my career with immense pride and gratitude. But that chapter of my life is closed. This book is the final word on my riding career - it's time to move forward.

About the Author

Born in County Antrim in 1974, A. P. McCoy rode his first winner in 1992. In 1996, he was crowned champion jockey for the first time, and he has held the title ever since. He received an OBE in 2010, a year after riding his 3,000th winner, and he was the first jockey to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He lives with his wife, Chanelle, and children, Eve and Archie, in Berkshire.
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