McCoy still to decide on a retirement date

A little over 24 hours after Tony McCoy stunned the racing world in announcing he would retire at the end of the season, the irrepressible jockey roared to a fairytale success in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.

McCoy had already ridden his first winner since his bombshell when Sort It Out scored at the Dublin track in the famous silks of his boss JP McManus, but that was to prove simply a taster for what was to come in the Gold Cup.