McCoy celebrates fastest century with treble

TONY MCCOY created yet another piece of history yesterday when notching up the fastest century of winners and scoring a near 18-1 treble at Newton Abbot.

McCoy reached 100 winners on September 17 last year but he did not have the best of starts to the day as he took a fall from Ela d‘Argent in the first race but he bounced back to take the next on the Martin Pipe-trained Tiger Grass (4-6 favourite).

He then partnered Toi Express (2-5 favourite) to an easy five-length victory for Philip Hobbs which chalked up the 100th winner and helped him beat his own record by 13 days.