McCoy the most enduringly brilliant jump jockey on the planet

Tony McCoy once summed up the essential ingredient in the make-up of a champion jump jockey with searing simplicity.

McCoy the most enduringly brilliant jump jockey on the planet

“You have to think you’re unbreakable,” he said.

It is a conviction which has taken McCoy to an astonishing 4,000 career wins to confirm his status as the most courageous, most committed, most enduringly brilliant jump jockey on the planet. A jockey who, like flat racing’s Lester Piggott before him, has secured an affection in the public at large which transcends his sport.

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