McCoy scores another winner
McCoy beat off some seriously stiff opposition to claim the award for the first time, with world champions Rob Heffernan, Martyn Irvine, Michael McKillop and Jason Smith, European champions Annalise Murphy and Jason Quigley, All-Ireland winners Tony Kelly and Michael Darragh Macauley, rugby star Jonathan Sexton and fellow jockey Joseph O’Brien amongst the other nominees.
The 39-year-old Moneyglass native, who is pursuing a 19th consecutive champion jockey’s title in Britain and has never failed to be champion since turning professional, earned one of Irish sport’s top awards after recording his 4,000th winner on board Mountain Tunes at Towcester on November 7.
