McCoy still one short of Pipe tally

A hat-trick for Tom Scudamore stole the show from Tony McCoy at Newton Abbot yesterday as the champion jockey’s wait to reach Martin Pipe’s phenomenal record goes on.

McCoy was very much the headline act at the Devon circuit, requiring just one winner from a book of four rides to draw level with Pipe’s total of 4,191 career winners, a personal target set by the incomparable jockey when he passed the 4,000 mark at Towcester last November.

He was widely expected to get the job done at the first time of asking as he partnered prolific mare and 3-10 favourite Supreme Present in the opening At The Races Virgin 534 Novices’ Hurdle, but she could only manage a disappointing third as Scudamore struck aboard David Bridgwater’s hurdling debutant Collodi (8-1).