My Autobiography

A. P. McCoy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2013
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-1-4091-3545-6 (ISBN)

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The fully updated autobiography of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy, Grand National and BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR winner and unquestionably the greatest jump jockey ever.

Tony 'A.P.' McCoy is without doubt the greatest and most successful jump jockey of all time. He has collected a record 16 consecutive jump-jockey titles to date, since 1992 he has ridden more than 3,000 winners, saying 'I never stop dreaming of the day I'll reach 4,000', and in 2002 he beat Sir Gordon Richards's record of 269 winners in a season by riding 289. In April 2010, A.P. achieved his lifelong ambition when he won the Grand National at Aintree on Don't Push It. It was his 15th attempt to win the race, a victory that captured the public's imagination and further enhanced a glittering career in which he had seemingly won all there was to win. It was the missing piece in the racing jigsaw for a champion jockey who had already had famous victories in the King George VI Chase, Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup.

This powerfully honest autobiography looks at life at the very top in National Hunt racing, and includes the highs and lows of A.P. winning his second Gold Cup, in 2012 on Synchronised, fifteen years after his first, only to see the horse put down after a fall in that year's Grand National.

These are the memoirs of a true champion, an icon of sport, whose astonishing achievements are unlikely to be surpassed. It is a great story of courage and modesty, pain and professional setbacks, strong family values and sporting triumphs, the good guy coming first - and staying there.

Tony McCoy has been racing in England since 1994 and is widely recognised as one of the greatest National Hunt jockeys of all time. In only two of the last thirteen years has he failed to win Jump Jockey of the Year. Follow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AP_McCoy. A.P. McCoy is a record-breaking Northern Irish horse-racing jockey with a series of impressive wins to his name, including the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI Chase and the 2010 Grand National. McCoy was named BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR in 2010, becoming the first jockey to win the award.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2013
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 213 mm
Gewicht	442 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Reiten / Pferde
ISBN-10	1-4091-3545-4 / 1409135454
ISBN-13	978-1-4091-3545-6 / 9781409135456
Zustand	Neuware