A little over 24 hours after Tony McCoy stunned the racing world in announcing he would retire at the end of the season, the irrepressible jockey roared to a fairytale success in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.

Retiring champion jockey Tony McCoy believes he has over achieved in his career.

Champion jockey Tony McCoy is in line for the spare ride on Coneygree in next weekend’s Betfair Denman Chase at Newbury as regular partner Nico de Boinville is suspended.

Tony McCoy produced the kind of swashbuckling ride for which he has become so famed as he secured his 4,000th winner over jumps at Towcester yesterday.

IT was either France’s King Louis XV or his mistress — no-one seems quite sure which — who once warned: ‘Apres moi, le deluge’.

Noble Prince gave Tony McCoy his first winner at this year’s Festival, and his 200th of the season, by taking the opening Jewson Novices’ Chase on day three at Cheltenham.

ROBERT THORNTON looks like being on board Forpadydeplasterer for Saturday’s rearranged William Hill King George VI Chase at Kempton unless something untoward happens to Barry Geraghty’s mount Riverside Theatre.

Tests show that BP is on target for completion of a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico by mid-August, the best hope of stopping the oil that has been gushing since April, the company said today.

Robert Thornton hopes to return to action in about a week to 10 days after escaping with a minor back injury following a crashing fall at Leicester on Tuesday.

Richard Johnson has spent his career in the shadow of Tony McCoy, but the perennial champion was keen to proclaim his rival as an underrated force as he became just the second jump jockey to pass the 2,000-winner mark.

Mud and boulders loosened by days of heavy rain swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people.

EL SALVADOR’S interior minister said the death toll is now 91 from floods and landslides touched off by three days of heavy rains.

Forty people have died in El Salvador following three days of heavy rains, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said today.

TONY McCOY was warmly congratulated by his fellow riders and offered three cheers by the crowd as he entered the winner’s enclosure after his historic win on Restless D’Artaix.

The Tony McCoy roadshow moves on to Wincanton tomorrow as he chases down the milestone of 3,000 British and Irish National Hunt winners.

A JUDGE yesterday ruled that sexual abuse perpetrated on an eight-year-old girl by a neighbour was the cause of her suicide 18 years later.

Robbie Fowler will bring the curtain down on his Liverpool career on Sunday, but goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek will almost certainly be denied the chance to play in one final game for the club.

Former Champion Hurdle-winning jockey Dean Gallagher has issued a come-and-get-me plea as he bids to book an 11th ride in the John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree on April 14.

Seamus Heffernan has lodged an appeal with the Horseracing Regulatory Authority against the Ascot stewards’ decision to ban him for 14 days for improper riding under the rule covering pacemakers and team tactics.

RICHARD JOHNSON is set to ride either It Takes Time or Therealbandit in the John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week.

Richard Johnson is set to ride either It Takes Time or Therealbandit in the John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree on Saturday week.

BALLYCASSIDY will bypass the John Smith's Grand National on Saturday week in preference to an assignment at Aintree a day earlier.

Leading jockey Richard Johnson is still without a ride in the John Smith’s Grand National at Aintree next Saturday.

Jockey Robert Thornton will return to action later in the week following a spill at Wincanton on Saturday.

Florida’s Atlantic coast braced for the arrival of a tropical storm today, two weeks after Hurricane Katrina first hit the state.

A massive evacuation of tourists in one of the world’s biggest resorts was set to begin today, as hundreds of buses were dispatched to move tens of thousands out of the path of Hurricane Emily.

Tony McCoy will miss his four booked rides at Musselburgh this afternoon as he continues to recover from flu.

DEAN GALLAGHER has described his new partnership with Francois Doumen as a “fantastic opportunity” after he was yesterday announced as the new stable jockey to the French trainer.

Dean Gallagher has described his new partnership with Francois Doumen as a “fantastic opportunity” after he was yesterday announced as the new stable jockey to the French trainer.

Barry Fenton suffered no ill effects from his fall at Kempton on Saturday and hopes to be back in the saddle later this week.

Tony McCoy is set to return to action at Ludlow on Wednesday, just nine days after breaking his cheekbone in three places in a nasty fall at Plumpton.

Tony McCoy reached a major landmark in his glittering career when Magical Bailiwick became a 2,000th success in Britain for the eight-times champion jockey at Wincanton yesterday.

Tony McCoy became the first jumps jockey to ride 2,000 winners in Britain when he partnered Magical Bailiwick to victory at Wincanton today.

RICHARD JOHNSON surpassed the total of John Francome to become the fourth winning-most jumps jockey of all time in Britain when scoring a double at Huntingdon yesterday.

Richard Johnson surpassed the total of John Francome to become the fourth winning-most jumps jockey of all time in Britain when scoring a double at Huntingdon today.

Tony McCoy returns to action with two mounts at Fontwell after two agonising months sidelined with a broken arm.

Mick Fitzgerald escaped serious injury in a horror fall at Newbury today.

Hear’Say are splitting up. They’re calling it a day because abuse from the public is getting them down. According to band members it’s made their lives unbearable and they simply couldn’t face any more.

TONY MCCOY fulfilled a boyhood ambition at Uttoxeter yesterday when he became the winning most jump jockey at the expense of his idol Richard Dunwoody.

It has been a long wait but champion jockey Tony McCoy today stands alone as having ridden more winners in a season than any other rider in history.

Irish jockey Norman Williamson will sit out the next couple of days after damaging his wrist ligaments at Leopardstown.

Leading jump jockey Richard Johnson has been given the go-ahead to return to action on Thursday after almost exactly three months on the sidelines.