What difference will it make if McCoy wins BBC Sports Personality Of The Year award?

TOMORROW week we will know if Tony McCoy has become the first racing winner of the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year award.

McCoy has been the subject of an orchestrated and concerted campaign in Britain, by many strands of the racing industry, to literally push him over the line.

The view appears to be that victory for McCoy will offer a major boost to the game. Indeed a particular writer, on hearing the news that McCoy had been nominated for the honour, declared: “Racing last night breathed a huge sigh of relief.”