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0:00:08 > 0:00:11- TV COMMENTARY:- ..then Jay Are and Kingdom together, moving ahead
0:00:11 > 0:00:14of Winner Massagot, who is just ahead of Buster Brown at the rear
0:00:14 > 0:00:17of the field as they swing left-handed and halfway,
0:00:17 > 0:00:20and begin their journey toward the last three flights of hurdles
0:00:20 > 0:00:21in the home straight.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23Risk A Fine
0:00:23 > 0:00:26continues to have the lead, still about seven or eight lengths ahead
0:00:26 > 0:00:29from in second position is Royal Vacation
0:00:29 > 0:00:33and then Poker School, Bill Kennedy in the pink and red jacket,
0:00:33 > 0:00:35the pink and green is Cardinal Walter.
0:00:35 > 0:00:38Holds fourth place. White-faced Prairie Town is next,
0:00:38 > 0:00:40the black jacket of Qewy behind this.
0:00:40 > 0:00:42White sleeves, white cap,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45Cloonacool making a bit of progress around the outside,
0:00:45 > 0:00:46Bouvreuil is still right there
0:00:46 > 0:00:48against the running rail in the red and pink
0:00:48 > 0:00:51as they really close down on this leader now
0:00:51 > 0:00:53as they level up into the home straight and come to three
0:00:53 > 0:00:55from the finish.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Off to the right, the blue jacket of Risk A Fine,
0:00:58 > 0:00:59only now a narrow leader.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01Cardinal Walter, almost level with him,
0:01:01 > 0:01:03has come there very strongly indeed
0:01:03 > 0:01:04for Barry Geraghty.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Now in front as they head down towards the second last,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10Qewy is trying to get there with Royal Vacation,
0:01:10 > 0:01:13Prairie Town, Bouvreuil on the right in the red
0:01:13 > 0:01:15coming into it as well...
0:01:15 > 0:01:17It's like being an addict.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21I'm an addict to my way of life...
0:01:23 > 0:01:25..because it's like a drug.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32I'm an addict to riding horses, I'm an addict to winning.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38But it wears off and then you have to go chasing it again.
0:01:41 > 0:01:45It's all about winning, that's what you're really addicted to.
0:01:47 > 0:01:49That's why you go chasing that...
0:01:49 > 0:01:52that kick that sort of makes it different.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I don't know where the excitement comes from,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13just the riding and jumping the fences and...
0:02:14 > 0:02:16..with lots of other horses around you.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20You know, that there's not much room, you don't get to see much.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23There's horses falling around you.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35I suppose near the end, I suppose the adrenaline is in winning,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38you know, I mean, that's all it's about, like,
0:02:38 > 0:02:40it's all about winning.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52I think you have to have goals in life, you know,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54you have to have something to chase,
0:02:54 > 0:02:58you have to chase the thing that you can't ever catch.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35I don't think I was ever really content with my life...
0:03:38 > 0:03:40..because no matter how much you have a go at it,
0:03:40 > 0:03:41no matter how much you try, you can't...
0:03:43 > 0:03:45..you can't be as good as you want to be.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57HE BREATHES DEEPLY
0:03:59 > 0:04:01'Previous injuries?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03'Erm, cheekbone.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05'OK, left or right?
0:04:05 > 0:04:07'Left, yeah, because I never really got the feeling back.
0:04:07 > 0:04:11'Left collarbone, twice, I think.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15'Shoulder blade... Can't remember which one.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- 'Sternum.- Yeah.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21'The ribs are... They've all had a go, I think.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25'My back is fused from T...
0:04:26 > 0:04:27'..9 to 12.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32'Done broke my right arm, erm,
0:04:32 > 0:04:33'radius and ulna.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35- 'Both at the same time? - Both at the same time.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38- 'OK.- My right wrist as well.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40'My left tib and fib.'
0:04:40 > 0:04:43I think I got a kick there a few times, that's all that is.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45'And my right ankle, I think.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47'Never had a concussion?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49'I've had lots of bangs on the head,
0:04:49 > 0:04:51'but I've always been able to function and know where I am.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53'Yeah, OK.'
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Hands on the side of your thighs.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57'As my career developed
0:04:57 > 0:05:00'and I was lucky enough to become successful, I...
0:05:00 > 0:05:02'It... It became a bit of a numbers thing, you know?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05'When I started off, I wanted to be champion jockey,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07'and when I was champion jockey
0:05:07 > 0:05:09'then I, you know, wanted to ride more winners
0:05:09 > 0:05:12'than any jump jockey had ridden before.
0:05:12 > 0:05:16'In 2002, I was able to do that, I rode 289 winners in that season.'
0:05:16 > 0:05:19'..opinions about who the greatest this, that and the other -
0:05:19 > 0:05:21'it doesn't really matter about your opinions,
0:05:21 > 0:05:22'the number of winners you've ridden.'
0:05:22 > 0:05:25'Then you want to... you want to win more jockeys championships
0:05:25 > 0:05:27'than any other jump jockey has before,
0:05:27 > 0:05:28'and you want to ride more winners
0:05:28 > 0:05:30'than any other jump jockey has before, and...
0:05:30 > 0:05:33'Um, when I rode 3,000 winners, I actually thought,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35'I will be able to ride 4,000 winners,
0:05:35 > 0:05:39'I had it in my head, I thought this is achievable, you know?'
0:05:39 > 0:05:41'But as I say, to be champion jockey 18 times,
0:05:41 > 0:05:44'to ride 4,000 winners is incomparable.'
0:05:44 > 0:05:48'Crispin is out in front here, Crispin from Panama Petrus.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51'Mountain Tunes still staying on, surely he can't, can he?
0:05:51 > 0:05:52'The final flight...
0:05:52 > 0:05:54'And there jumps Crispin
0:05:54 > 0:05:56'and Mountain Tunes and Tony McCoy
0:05:56 > 0:06:00'now launching a tremendous attack on the outside. He's done it!
0:06:00 > 0:06:03'What a hero! What a sportsman! What a jockey!
0:06:03 > 0:06:07'4,000 up for Tony McCoy on Mountain Tunes,
0:06:07 > 0:06:11'who played Crispin late, and Panama Petrus back in third place.'
0:06:11 > 0:06:14'The thing about records is they always get broken, you know,
0:06:14 > 0:06:16'they always get broken.
0:06:16 > 0:06:18'So I want to make it as tough as possible
0:06:18 > 0:06:19'for whoever is breaking them, you know?
0:06:19 > 0:06:22'Because in, you know, in 20 years' time
0:06:22 > 0:06:26'if someone is champion jockey for the 20th time, I'll be 60,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29'or when I'm dead and buried, at least it won't annoy me.'
0:06:33 > 0:06:36OK, we're going this way.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42Evie, sweet... Sweet pea, can you stay with me? Thank you.
0:06:42 > 0:06:43Put your thing on.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Right, please... Please stay with me. Right beside me.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Our award for this season's champion jockey.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53He's been the champion every year
0:06:53 > 0:06:56since he started riding, taking a conditional title
0:06:56 > 0:07:00and 18 consecutive champion jockey titles.
0:07:00 > 0:07:02He's won Gold Cups, Champion Hurdles,
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Queen Mother Champion Chases, and a Grand National.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Ladies and gentlemen, a huge round of applause
0:07:08 > 0:07:11for our champion jockey, Tony McCoy!
0:07:11 > 0:07:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:07:17 > 0:07:20'I would love him to retire at the end of this year.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26'Because the races are run at a faster pace,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29'so when the jockey does have a fall, they hit the ground faster,
0:07:29 > 0:07:32'and there has been a lot of bad injuries over the last, probably,
0:07:32 > 0:07:33'two and three years.'
0:07:33 > 0:07:36Is Daddy going to win this?
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Well, that's the plan, Eve, right?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41'The fact that we have two kids now,
0:07:41 > 0:07:46'and I think the sport has been incredibly good to him,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48'erm, and he is 40.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51'You know, I know it's very young in some ways,
0:07:51 > 0:07:52'but in his career it's old.'
0:07:52 > 0:07:53Hold on, here's another one.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55One more jump. One more jump.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57He just needs to get over this.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Please, please, please don't fall.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02Come on! Come on, hurry!
0:08:02 > 0:08:04Come on!
0:08:04 > 0:08:07Come on, Anthony! Come on, hurry!
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Come on, Anthony!
0:08:12 > 0:08:14And on the day he's crowned 19 times
0:08:14 > 0:08:17champion jockey, Tony McCoy gets home in the first.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Whoo!
0:08:22 > 0:08:25'So, yes, I would like him to retire this year,'
0:08:25 > 0:08:30mainly because of safety reasons, and to get him in one piece,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32I don't want to have a husband
0:08:32 > 0:08:35that you have to help out of bed every morning,
0:08:35 > 0:08:40and, you know, ideally, that would be... Erm, yeah.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Can you sum up what 19, what number 19 means to you?
0:08:47 > 0:08:49You got to enjoy the moment, erm. Hopefully,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I can win another jockey's title, maybe win a few more.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Erm, I know a lot of people have asked me about riding 5,000 winners,
0:08:55 > 0:08:57and my wife would kill me for saying that,
0:08:57 > 0:09:00but, you know, you got to give yourself targets and goals.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03'You know, I've been lucky...
0:09:03 > 0:09:05'I've been lucky to work with great people
0:09:05 > 0:09:06'that helped me win a lot, but...
0:09:06 > 0:09:08'And I have a great agent in Dave Roberts,
0:09:08 > 0:09:10'who books all my rides, you know, so, erm,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13'you have to continue winning.'
0:09:19 > 0:09:21The season finishes on the Saturday,
0:09:21 > 0:09:23it starts again, I think, now on the Tuesday,
0:09:23 > 0:09:26you're back to zero and you've got to be riding winners quickly
0:09:26 > 0:09:28if you want to be champion jockey.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33PHONE RINGS
0:09:37 > 0:09:38Hi, Dave Roberts speaking.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40'Hi, Dave, I'll pass you over to Alan.'
0:09:40 > 0:09:42I'm just checking with Chepstow tomorrow...
0:09:42 > 0:09:44'No, I don't run. I've just spoken to Frank,
0:09:44 > 0:09:46'and we're not going to run him on heavy ground.'
0:09:46 > 0:09:49OK, so AP won't be riding him tomorrow night.
0:09:49 > 0:09:52'His kind of approach is numerical.
0:09:52 > 0:09:55'If any horse can win any race, he will ride it,
0:09:55 > 0:09:57'good jumper or bad jumper.'
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- Was there anything else? - 'OK, No, thanks, bye.'
0:09:59 > 0:10:01'That's what's got him where he is,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05'the fact that people know that he will always ride every day
0:10:05 > 0:10:08'if it's physically possible, and that is the difference.'
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Yeah, very well, no, that's fine for AP tonight.
0:10:11 > 0:10:13'Getting to the tally of 4,000,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15'that's probably a lot to do why he's got there,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17'cos he'll go racing when'
0:10:17 > 0:10:19a lot of people, years ago, wouldn't have done.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22They would've took days off, but not him, no.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24'Rushing round these
0:10:24 > 0:10:27'little tracks, riding winners for a couple of thousand,
0:10:27 > 0:10:31'and those, basically, are his championship months, aren't they?
0:10:31 > 0:10:32'Yeah, they are.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34'I think what makes it extraordinary
0:10:34 > 0:10:36'is he's only got to compete against himself.
0:10:36 > 0:10:38'Yet he's still willing to get in the car,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42'drive five hours up to Newcastle for one ride,
0:10:42 > 0:10:45'turn round and then do it all over again.'
0:10:45 > 0:10:4711-2 in the field now...
0:10:51 > 0:10:54Thank you very much, sir, and the best of luck to you.
0:10:54 > 0:10:56'Yeah, that's right, I mean, we're betting on
0:10:56 > 0:10:58'whether he'll reach 5,000 winners,
0:10:58 > 0:11:00'this is the next enormous landmark,
0:11:00 > 0:11:02'and, of course, when he got to 4,000,
0:11:02 > 0:11:03'we thought it was highly unlikely.'
0:11:03 > 0:11:06'It's all numbers. It's only ever been numbers.'
0:11:10 > 0:11:13'It was about riding as many winners as quickly as possible,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17'and give them as little time to dream about even being champion jockey, as possible,
0:11:17 > 0:11:19'because the longer they have,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22'the more, sometimes, it can become reality.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25'I always wanted to just sicken them as quickly as possible.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27'I wanted it to be over
0:11:27 > 0:11:30'before it started if I could help it, you know?'
0:11:30 > 0:11:32'You know, and it's always that thing,
0:11:32 > 0:11:36'he wants them to look across at him and go, "Oh, no, it's AP,"
0:11:36 > 0:11:38'and that's what you do when you're riding against him,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41'you just think, "Oh, yeah, I've got a chance, got a chance,"
0:11:41 > 0:11:44'then you look across, and go, "Oh, no, it's like Doctor Death."'
0:11:44 > 0:11:46BELL RINGS
0:12:01 > 0:12:04And they're off.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06Lucky Prince is the first away,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08being followed by Chalk It Down and Dresden,
0:12:08 > 0:12:11they're chased by Fantasy King and Ballybriggan
0:12:11 > 0:12:12and as they step over...
0:12:12 > 0:12:14And they're rallying to the outside,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Chalk It Down, Dresden also trying to get on terms,
0:12:17 > 0:12:19they make the run down towards the final flight...
0:12:19 > 0:12:20And Dresden is down!
0:12:20 > 0:12:23Dresden is down, and that has left Chalk It Down in front
0:12:23 > 0:12:25in the hands of the champion jockey.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26And going towards the finish,
0:12:26 > 0:12:31it is Chalk It Down who will chalk up his first win over hurdles.
0:12:31 > 0:12:32May be lucky.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Chalk It Down the winner, Fantasy King second,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36Gracchus third, then Lucky Prince and Ballybriggan.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51You kind of set yourself goals,
0:12:51 > 0:12:54you know, I was thinking if I rode 20 winners in May,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56then that would be good, you know?
0:12:56 > 0:12:57And you're getting there now?
0:12:57 > 0:12:59Well, I've ridden 21, so I'm thinking now,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01hopefully, I can ride 30 winners in May,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04so the goal posts have changed quickly.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09I'll be disappointed if I don't ride 30 winners.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12If I don't ride nine more in May, you know.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13And what happens if you don't?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Uh, that'll be a bit of a failure, won't it?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26'I do worry about maybe not being as good as I once was,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29'or not having as many winners as I should have done,
0:13:29 > 0:13:33'or worrying that people might think because I've had a lot of success in the past
0:13:33 > 0:13:36'that I might not be as hungry to have it again, you know, so.'
0:13:39 > 0:13:42'Or they might think that, you know, his time is up,
0:13:42 > 0:13:43'he's not as good as he once was,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45'which happens to every sports person, so.'
0:13:47 > 0:13:49'I will give it a go,
0:13:49 > 0:13:53'and try to ride my fastest ever 50th winner if I can, erm,
0:13:53 > 0:13:55'but, also, I wanted to be champion jockey this year,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57'cos if I am, it'll be my 20th season
0:13:57 > 0:14:02'and, erm, you know, that's something I could never have dreamed of being able to do,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05'so this season will be harder than any of the others,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08'you know, to try and achieve that, so.'
0:14:25 > 0:14:29Tornado Bob, Bob Keown is rallying on that flat.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33Tornado Bob, Bob Keown is the first near the line.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36McCoy getting it on close. His fastest ever 50.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Bob Keown, gone up in the shadows...
0:14:41 > 0:14:43Does it mean that he's got a target in mind?
0:14:43 > 0:14:45Maybe that magic number of 289,
0:14:45 > 0:14:50his best ever season tally, perhaps even getting to that magic 300.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52What an achievement that would be.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Is this realistic this season?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56I think it is, there's no doubt about it,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58he's got to the fastest 50,
0:14:58 > 0:15:02he knows he's ahead of his schedule, he'll have that marked.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08Now his next target will be 100, then the target after that 150,
0:15:08 > 0:15:11then 200, then 250, and then that magic number.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40'This time of the year, he comes maybe once or twice a week, really,
0:15:40 > 0:15:41'just to school all the young horses,
0:15:41 > 0:15:43'and even the older ones, just to give them a pop.'
0:15:46 > 0:15:47Ah, ya do, yeah.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50You'd need this for a week, wouldn't you? To be fair, to get in properly.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53'So he has an idea of which one he would choose to ride
0:15:53 > 0:15:55'if it came to that, you know.'
0:15:57 > 0:16:00You're going to pop on Monday Gold first,
0:16:00 > 0:16:03and Clubs Are Trumps, and Master Fortune.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08'He's so much experience and what he tells you about them,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10'you take it on board, really,
0:16:10 > 0:16:16'and nine times out of ten, it comes true, you know, so having him on it is a great help.'
0:16:21 > 0:16:24- He seems happy enough taking the big ones.- Mmm. Yeah.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30Oh, he's clever, I suppose that's clever. I like to see him do that.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35- Yeah, he's very good. Yeah. - He's good and brave, yeah?
0:16:36 > 0:16:38But intelligent, like, cos he is a bit...
0:16:38 > 0:16:42He was over the hurdle, he was a little bit grabby, you know?
0:16:46 > 0:16:47Whoa...
0:16:50 > 0:16:51Whoa...
0:16:51 > 0:16:55'He has the horses basically talking to him, really,
0:16:55 > 0:16:58'and he makes them do what they're supposed to do
0:16:58 > 0:17:00- 'and gives them a lot of confidence doing it.'- Whoa...
0:17:00 > 0:17:03'Not everybody has that, that's a magical effect, really.'
0:17:10 > 0:17:12'If he rides a horse for the first time,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15'that horse has an uncanny knack of improving once he's sat on it.'
0:17:22 > 0:17:24'It's uncanny how many times he's won on horses
0:17:24 > 0:17:26'which shouldn't have won a race.'
0:17:29 > 0:17:33'There's something he gets which the horse responds to.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39'And it happens so many times, it can't be coincidence,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42'it's as if the horse gets him on their back,
0:17:42 > 0:17:44'and the horse grows in confidence,
0:17:44 > 0:17:47'so the next time it runs, it's, "I quite like this."'
0:17:59 > 0:18:02'His mentality is exceptional...
0:18:06 > 0:18:08'..his knowledge of the formbook,
0:18:08 > 0:18:11'you can ring up and ask him any horse,
0:18:11 > 0:18:13'he would know of what that horse can do.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16'The feedback he gives the trainer,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18'you know, the horse might need blinkers,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20'or it might need to be held up at the back,
0:18:20 > 0:18:22'and then the horse suddenly improves.'
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Yeah, there's better ground out there,
0:18:25 > 0:18:27you can see the divots on the end.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29And then he'd be... He'd run on like...
0:18:29 > 0:18:31We've done his palate, we did it in August.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34At some point, you might be better off doing the whole job,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37because that's why he's doing what he's doing.
0:18:37 > 0:18:38'Do you know what, Luke?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40'I think he's been picking his rides a little bit, too,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43'because he's so desperate to do it in JP's colours.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46'When you get someone that is as successful as JP McManus,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48'he's polite, he's quiet, he's not exuberant.'
0:18:50 > 0:18:54If he goes ten ahead of you, and you jump off with him,
0:18:54 > 0:18:55- that's fine. At least he ends. - Yeah.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58'You know, he sees in somebody like JP,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00'somebody who's unbelievably loyal.'
0:19:00 > 0:19:03Don't give him a gift. Don't give him a fucking gift.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07'He's become really, really close to JP and Jonjo,
0:19:07 > 0:19:09'they've got a little bond between them.'
0:19:09 > 0:19:11There's AP, kind of looking for us, eh?
0:19:11 > 0:19:13AP!
0:19:17 > 0:19:18How are you, AP?
0:19:22 > 0:19:24He's lazy enough,
0:19:24 > 0:19:26if you have to hit him a slought now,
0:19:26 > 0:19:28don't be frightened to hit him a slought.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30But he is lazy, I'm telling you, he's fucking gone a bit old-fashioned.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32If I see a lot behind him, like.
0:19:32 > 0:19:33Yeah. Yeah.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37You shouldn't have to.
0:19:37 > 0:19:38BELL RINGS
0:19:42 > 0:19:44And here is AP McCoy,
0:19:44 > 0:19:47in the green and yellow hoops of JP McManus,
0:19:47 > 0:19:50trained by Jonjo O'Neill, white cap.
0:19:52 > 0:19:57'You see your husband putting themselves at risk every day,
0:19:57 > 0:19:59'and, yes, you've chosen to marry them,
0:19:59 > 0:20:01'and you've chosen to support them in the career.'
0:20:01 > 0:20:03Come on!
0:20:03 > 0:20:08'But he has lived with the hardship of having very bad injuries
0:20:08 > 0:20:11'for the last 20-odd years he's riding.'
0:20:16 > 0:20:17- Oh!- Oh, my God!
0:20:17 > 0:20:21'His ability to control pain, to manage pain is, um...
0:20:22 > 0:20:27'..is very unique, and, you know, very bizarre.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34'I mean, it is quite unusual the way he can control concussion.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39'Cos if you're out, then you step down.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42'And he's gone out and ridden in the next race
0:20:42 > 0:20:45'and has absolutely no recollection of riding in that race.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51'He can control it because he's driven by fear...
0:20:52 > 0:20:55'The fear of not being champion jockey.'
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Go, go, go, go!
0:21:02 > 0:21:05'Just everything is, "It's in the head, Chanelle. It's in the head," you know.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10'He's like, "Pain is temporary, losing is permanent."'
0:21:10 > 0:21:13You know, I mean, it's temporary.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15So we're OK. Phew!
0:21:17 > 0:21:18Up you come.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Ah, a nice little sleep.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29How many are you putting in?
0:21:29 > 0:21:31He'll have a bridge of four teeth.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36It's like having your permanent courtesy car when your car goes in for repair or service.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38He needs a courtesy set of teeth for everything.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41And that's why, you know, we're not prepared
0:21:41 > 0:21:44to put the implants in and put new teeth in straightaway,
0:21:44 > 0:21:46because you have to be careful with that.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50- So when he retires, then, we can...- We need to get on with this.
0:21:50 > 0:21:54That's the idea. So you tell me as and when that's going to be...
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- That's the million-dollar question.- Absolutely!
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- I'm not going to make you answer. - We need to get on with this...
0:22:02 > 0:22:04- We need to get going. - It's a strange process.
0:22:04 > 0:22:07- Yeah. Right, we're ready to go. - OK.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10- Super. Thank you so much. - Just give me a smile there.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- OK, we'll keep them nice and white for you.- Yeah, yeah.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17'Most people would tell you they think he's made of something else
0:22:17 > 0:22:20'because I'd say 60, 70% of jockeys would have stopped by now
0:22:20 > 0:22:22'on what he's had.'
0:22:23 > 0:22:28'I mean, you know, every time they go to ride, it could be their last ride.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31'I sit and watch the race in here
0:22:31 > 0:22:33'and whether it's one of my jockeys or someone else's jockeys,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36'as soon as a horse falls and you think a jockey's had a bad fall,
0:22:36 > 0:22:40'it just makes you sit back and you wince a bit,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43'because you just don't know,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46'you are, really, every time you ride, that could be your last one.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50'There are no guarantees. It is a high-risk sport, I think.'
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Nip and tuck between these two
0:23:05 > 0:23:06as they come to the next flight.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08AP McCoy out in the front with the racing...
0:23:08 > 0:23:09Oh, my goodness, he's fallen!
0:23:09 > 0:23:12AP McCoy takes a fall and then the oncoming horse
0:23:12 > 0:23:14appears to step on AP at the same time.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17That looked nasty. AP gingerly getting to his feet...
0:23:22 > 0:23:25And you get no threes or fours...
0:23:25 > 0:23:27- You only got ones or twos. - Mmm-hmm.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30So we need to get rid of the twos and get all ones.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- And then we'll be away, won't we? - Mmm-hmm.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- What? Do you think you'll be able to do that?- Hmm.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Evie, are you having breakfast?
0:23:46 > 0:23:47INDISTINCT CHAT
0:24:07 > 0:24:09I'm sore, you know.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12And then I rode a horse in the next race because I thought it would win.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14And, erm...
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Luckily it did win, and then I gave up the rest of my rides,
0:24:19 > 0:24:21and I didn't ride yesterday, either, so...
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Like, I knew it was obviously around my chest,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27around my lungs area and that,
0:24:27 > 0:24:32but I've punctured my lungs twice in the last...two years,
0:24:32 > 0:24:36so I kind of know the feeling of what it's like whenever they're punctured or not.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Because your breath doesn't come back when you puncture your lung.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41So it was kind of...
0:24:41 > 0:24:45My breath wasn't great, but it did gradually come back.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46But, um...
0:24:48 > 0:24:50It got...
0:24:50 > 0:24:53There's a guy there. I have to get up there. Please.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58Right, here. My husband will help you.
0:24:58 > 0:25:00- Hi, Dave, you all right? - Just put it on speaker.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Erm, good, yeah.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Have you many rides on Sunday, out of a matter of interest?
0:25:07 > 0:25:09I might only ride a few of them on Sunday, then,
0:25:09 > 0:25:11and see how I am. And suddenly if you think
0:25:11 > 0:25:14any of us have got a chance, then I'll ride it, you know.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16All right, thanks Dave. Cheers. Bye-bye, bye.
0:25:18 > 0:25:20Tell him you're not riding on Sunday.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22I am riding on Sunday.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25It's just badly bruised, it's very sore, but it's grand.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29It's getting better, I can lift my hand up now.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35The 19-times champion aboard On The Record
0:25:35 > 0:25:37moves alongside Roll On Ruby.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Now McCoy has to shake up On The Record,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44and Bangkok Pete and Wayne Kavanagh
0:25:44 > 0:25:47alongside, moving on down towards the second last.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51On The Record, galvanised by AP, trying to see off
0:25:51 > 0:25:53the attentions of Bangkok Pete.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Bangkok Pete just ahead.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57On The Record though, a much cleaner leap.
0:25:57 > 0:26:02And now presented with the advantage, McCoy driving away.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Bangkok Pete, On The Record,
0:26:04 > 0:26:07back for more on the near side, McCoy pulls it out of the fire,
0:26:07 > 0:26:11and On The Record, for the man who makes breaking records
0:26:11 > 0:26:13look commonplace has got up to score.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16And a personal milestone is almost reached.
0:26:17 > 0:26:21'AP McCoy, as the champ has equalled the number of winners,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24'trained by his former boss, Martin Pipe.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26'Martin, hello there. How are you?
0:26:26 > 0:26:27Hello, Mike. Very well. Thank you.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29'I bet you can't believe that he's
0:26:29 > 0:26:31'closing down on your record, can you?
0:26:31 > 0:26:34'No, it's a challenge we've had between us for some time
0:26:34 > 0:26:37'and he's getting so, so close.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39'It really is incredible.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42'To ride so many winners and still keep going.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43'And riding better than ever.'
0:26:45 > 0:26:47'Kirbys Glen at the rear of the field.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48'So, Tony McCoy disputing third place,
0:26:48 > 0:26:52'seeking to surpass Martin Pipe's record of career wins
0:26:52 > 0:26:54'which he equalled today at Uttoxeter.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57'At the moment, Old Pals Act is still right in the thick of things.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00'As indeed is virtually every single runner here,
0:27:00 > 0:27:03'as Quinsman leads the turn, just about a circuit under their belts.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07'And for the first time, Andrew Thornton giving the impression he just wants to press on slightly,
0:27:07 > 0:27:09'but he hasn't shaken off the pursuers...'
0:27:21 > 0:27:25'Quinsman by a length as he approaches the next...
0:27:25 > 0:27:27'Again, they're all over, in fact Kirbys Glen
0:27:27 > 0:27:29'just beginning to struggle slightly, just like
0:27:29 > 0:27:33'so many we've seen. Tony McCoy improving on a horse that so far
0:27:33 > 0:27:36'hasn't really warmed to his jumping but between the fences is travelling up well.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38'Old Pals Act, then King of Dubai.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40'Then Ned The Post.'
0:27:40 > 0:27:42'I might have won more races than anyone else,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45'but I've lost a lot more than everyone else, too, so...
0:27:45 > 0:27:48'So I might have the record for the most wins,
0:27:48 > 0:27:51'but I've got the records for the most losses as well.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55'I've got the record for probably who's fallen off the most as well.'
0:27:58 > 0:28:01'Because you can win the biggest horse races in the country,
0:28:01 > 0:28:05'and then the next race, you can be in the back of an ambulance.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08'So, you can go from a very huge high
0:28:08 > 0:28:10'to a very sad low very quickly.'
0:28:20 > 0:28:24Quinsman hasn't been left, Old Pals Act is on the far side.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27And it's Quinsman! No record this time for Tony McCoy.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30But Quinsman moves Andrew Thornton another closer
0:28:30 > 0:28:32to his personal milestone of 1,000.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36Old Pals Act in second place...
0:28:48 > 0:28:51It feels a bit sore right down the middle.
0:28:51 > 0:28:52- OK.- So it does.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58But, obviously, as I said to you, about going to the garage,
0:28:58 > 0:29:00if you were a mechanic,
0:29:00 > 0:29:03the mechanic will fix you and you'll be better when you leave...
0:29:03 > 0:29:06That's pretty much how I... how I want to feel.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Whenever you leave, I'm supposed to feel better.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12- I've told you my theory on this as well, though. - AP LAUGHS
0:29:12 > 0:29:14Mechanics don't work with old bangers, do they?
0:29:14 > 0:29:17HE SIGHS HEAVILY Oh, dear.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Have you coloured your hair?
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Have I what?
0:29:22 > 0:29:23There's less grey in it today.
0:29:23 > 0:29:24HE LAUGHS
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Fucking hilarious, you are!
0:29:31 > 0:29:33I've got to have a good sense of humour to work with you.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37- Yeah, see, there it's quite sore. - Yeah.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41- That's the... - That's the old fracture.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43So, is that... Is that just...
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Cos I don't think that's been sore before.
0:29:46 > 0:29:48But you were sore last time when I saw you last week.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51I'm just going to work through, trying to release any tension
0:29:51 > 0:29:52through your soft tissue here.
0:29:59 > 0:30:00It'd be so much easier
0:30:00 > 0:30:03if they didn't stand on you whenever they fall.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04Don't fall off.
0:30:04 > 0:30:06Thanks(!)
0:30:11 > 0:30:15..It's A Gimme being lifted home
0:30:15 > 0:30:17by Tony McCoy, this is the one he wanted,
0:30:17 > 0:30:20he breaks Martin Pipe's record on It's A Gimme.
0:30:20 > 0:30:22Second goes to Lost Legend...
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Right, don't get me, guys. I'm with the kids, OK?
0:30:29 > 0:30:31We're all against AP.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34That little terror, yous got me!
0:30:34 > 0:30:35I got a fall, and when I fell,
0:30:35 > 0:30:37I fell away but the horse come behind me.
0:30:37 > 0:30:38Landed on you?
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Stood on me on the way past, stood right in the middle of my chest.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43It's my own fault it fell, cos it stepped on me, right?
0:30:43 > 0:30:45It was going to win. I couldn't breathe.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48I swear I was on the ground thinking, "Oh, my God..."
0:30:48 > 0:30:50And then I was worried because this side of my chest is fucked...
0:30:50 > 0:30:52CHILDREN SHOUT
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Just kick it up there out the way! Oh, Jesus!
0:30:58 > 0:31:03He's in denial but I think he's cracked his sternum and four ribs.
0:31:05 > 0:31:06Yeah.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09I remember breaking two ribs, thinking it was the most painful thing ever.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12He's popped them.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14Come on, Evie. Get stuck in, Evie.
0:31:16 > 0:31:17Go on, Evie.
0:31:23 > 0:31:27'Hopefully, for me, it will be the last year, but
0:31:27 > 0:31:30'it's a difficult subject to, you know, approach with him.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35'You know, he's just ridden 50 winners in 37 days.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39'It's the best season he's ever started off in the history of his career.
0:31:42 > 0:31:47'So there's reasons why he should continue riding for another possibly three years,
0:31:47 > 0:31:50'and there's very good reasons why he should stop this year.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57'I can't force him and I wouldn't, you know.
0:31:57 > 0:31:58'The decision has got to be his
0:31:58 > 0:32:01'because he's got to live with the consequences, you know.'
0:32:23 > 0:32:24Come on!
0:32:28 > 0:32:30Tony McCoy, the fastest 100, wins it!
0:32:30 > 0:32:32And it's not even out of August.
0:32:34 > 0:32:37Well, I've had an unbelievable summer, really, to be honest.
0:32:37 > 0:32:38Just that, I think...
0:32:38 > 0:32:40I don't what I've been doing the last 20 years cos
0:32:40 > 0:32:43this summer's been better than any of them.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45For some reason, I've been luckier this time.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Well, I know why I've been luckier this time around,
0:32:47 > 0:32:49I'm riding for a lot of people.
0:32:49 > 0:32:53Erm, Jason Maguire, unfortunately for him, got a really bad injury...
0:32:53 > 0:32:56Erm, the Monday before Cheltenham and he hasn't ridden since.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00You know, he was... Well, he was practically dead, to be honest.
0:33:00 > 0:33:03Erm, you know, I think he was resuscitated
0:33:03 > 0:33:08at one point on the way to hospital and he hasn't ridden since then.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12And Jason is first jockey to Donald McCain who is, um...
0:33:12 > 0:33:16you know, a very powerful stable and I've been lucky enough to ride
0:33:16 > 0:33:20the best part of 25 winners for him that I wouldn't have ridden.
0:33:20 > 0:33:25Erm, I've also ridden, I think, 12 winners for Kim Bailey,
0:33:25 > 0:33:27which Jason would have ridden as well, so,
0:33:27 > 0:33:30you know, I've probably ridden the best part of 40 winners that Jason might've ridden.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33So it is possible to ride 300 winners.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38300 winners means you've got to ride a winner every day
0:33:38 > 0:33:40other than 65 days in the year.
0:33:40 > 0:33:43There's only 65 days in the year that you cannot ride a winner.
0:33:47 > 0:33:49Hi, you're smelling good.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Well, hey, how it's going? Hey, guys.
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Good. Cheers, lads. See you in a minute.
0:33:57 > 0:33:58Erm...
0:34:00 > 0:34:03It'll be getting worse now as he's getting better, you know.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06- Because you'd be feeling like he's nearly...- Like he can get back, you know?
0:34:06 > 0:34:08That's the worst of it but, look...
0:34:09 > 0:34:12He's a lucky boy, Chanelle, he was bloody dead.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16And there was something else he was quite lucky with as well.
0:34:21 > 0:34:25Do you know, just when you just say that, it actually nearly puts me off my food.
0:34:25 > 0:34:26Hmm?
0:34:26 > 0:34:28In the space of ten minutes,
0:34:28 > 0:34:31we are talking about two jockeys being resuscitated.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35It's just the way it is, Chanelle.
0:34:36 > 0:34:38I don't know, honey, I mean,
0:34:38 > 0:34:41I know you're absolutely flying this year and I know it's hard,
0:34:41 > 0:34:43but I think...
0:34:43 > 0:34:48I think, this year is a good year, honey, to call it a day.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51- What?- You heard me.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57- This year is a good year to call it a day?- Yeah.
0:34:59 > 0:35:00I've too many bones in my fish.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07Why on earth would any year be a good year to call it a day?
0:35:10 > 0:35:12What's meant to be is meant to be.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14I know, but you can't, you know, I mean, you can't...
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Yes, I agree to that, but unfortunately, with some things...
0:35:21 > 0:35:23You know, some things you have to make a decision...
0:35:23 > 0:35:27- I know that, but...- ..you can't until the decision is made for you.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35I've had enough of that conversation now.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37OK, I know, but I'm just... All I'm saying to you is
0:35:37 > 0:35:41if the season doesn't go the way you planned, right?
0:35:41 > 0:35:43God forbid you get an injury... God forbid.
0:35:43 > 0:35:46How did I let you get on this conversation during dinner?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Well, I just...
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Cos I... It's hard to talk to you about it at home
0:35:50 > 0:35:53because you're watching Sky Sports and your Sky Plus,
0:35:53 > 0:35:55and this and that and you're not...
0:35:55 > 0:35:58Like...
0:35:58 > 0:35:59- Yeah.- You're not engaged.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04- What happens now? - OK, so the other scenario is...
0:36:04 > 0:36:06So, suddenly my life goes from being...
0:36:07 > 0:36:10Doing everything I wanted to do for last 20 odd years
0:36:10 > 0:36:14to waking up and thinking, "Mmm, what happens today, then?"
0:36:16 > 0:36:19Well, listen, there'll be a few lunchboxes for you to pack, honey.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21SHE CHUCKLES
0:36:21 > 0:36:23They'll be a few bins for you to take out.
0:36:25 > 0:36:26Seriously.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Hi, Rebecca. Just to say, erm, AP can ride both horses tomorrow.
0:36:36 > 0:36:39How about it in the 1.40 at Chepstow?
0:36:39 > 0:36:42AP is available if you want him. No?
0:36:44 > 0:36:47OK, no problem.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50'The only time you'll realise what he's achieved
0:36:50 > 0:36:51'is when he retires.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55'We've never spoke about it, apart from once,
0:36:55 > 0:36:58'and the conversation lasted about five seconds.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01'It's not on the agenda at the moment.
0:37:02 > 0:37:05'No, I hope he goes on as long as possible.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10'What he's achieved, I don't think will ever be matched.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13'I... I honestly don't think in my lifetime
0:37:13 > 0:37:16'someone will get to 4,000 winners again.'
0:37:18 > 0:37:21To be able to stay in one piece for 20 years
0:37:21 > 0:37:24and to ride 200 winners a year in that time,
0:37:24 > 0:37:26I can't see that happening.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36He's just had a fall, just to interrupt, he's just fell.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43That did not look very good.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56If in doubt, just to put his foot in the ditch, yeah.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15I'm leaving you with the results?
0:38:15 > 0:38:18Erm, I think someone was going to send them on to my doctor, I think.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19OK.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26- 'Hi.'- Hey, I went in to see the doctor.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29And he said I was fine, Chanelle.
0:38:29 > 0:38:30He said I'm perfect, you know.
0:38:32 > 0:38:35'Did he see your broken rib?'
0:38:35 > 0:38:37He said he'd seen in my X-rays
0:38:37 > 0:38:39that there was lots of old broken ribs and, yeah,
0:38:39 > 0:38:41everything else looked perfect, he said.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49'But it wasn't like you convincing him, "I'm fine to ride"?
0:38:49 > 0:38:51- 'Did he say you can ride.' - Chanelle...
0:38:51 > 0:38:55'But did you ask him if you have a fall, and, you know, could it...'
0:38:55 > 0:38:58I did, Chanelle. He said...
0:38:58 > 0:39:00'Could your problem get bigger?'
0:39:00 > 0:39:02He said, "There's a bigger risk of you on a horse
0:39:02 > 0:39:04"than there is your lung being a problem."
0:39:04 > 0:39:06'OK, so if you have a fall tomorrow,
0:39:06 > 0:39:09'and you get any impact around your lung,
0:39:09 > 0:39:13'then it shouldn't be dangerous?'
0:39:13 > 0:39:16It's no different than normal, you know...
0:39:16 > 0:39:18He said there is no more risk than there is normal risk.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22- How do you feel today?- Perfect.
0:39:25 > 0:39:26When you say perfect...?
0:39:26 > 0:39:29If you'd asked me on Friday, what I feel like,
0:39:29 > 0:39:31I'd have been delighted if I felt the way I do today.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34'OK, so you're going to ride then tomorrow?'
0:39:34 > 0:39:36I am, I am.
0:39:37 > 0:39:39I'll see you when I get home.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41- 'OK, bye-bye.'- Bye-bye.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57..with Tidal Way battling on.
0:39:57 > 0:39:59On the outside, it is Goodwood Mirage
0:39:59 > 0:40:01in the hands of Tony McCoy driven out here.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03About a length or so ahead of Lightening Rod
0:40:03 > 0:40:05who tries hard to fight back and does so.
0:40:05 > 0:40:06Goodwood Mirage, just!
0:40:06 > 0:40:08Goodwood Mirage, the far side.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10We'll call that the 150th for AP this season.
0:40:10 > 0:40:16Lightening Rod in the centre, to the outside is Tidal Way...
0:40:25 > 0:40:28HE BREATHES DEEPLY
0:40:36 > 0:40:38What we can do today is just, erm,
0:40:38 > 0:40:41help the healing of the injury with the injection.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43- Are you happy with that?- Yeah. - Yeah? OK.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50OK, so just spin that around there.
0:40:50 > 0:40:53- Are you all right, there?- Yeah. - We'll give it a quarter of an hour.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11- All done.- Thank you.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13- Feel OK?- Yeah. - Sure?- Absolutely.- Take it easy.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28APPLAUSE
0:41:28 > 0:41:31I think he IS better looking!
0:41:31 > 0:41:32What do you think, Evie?
0:41:35 > 0:41:37- Can you sit down?- Yeah, yeah.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40No, I'm all right now. I'm all right. I was sore yesterday.
0:41:40 > 0:41:42I've been very badly wounded as well, you know.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45I was on the ground and I could not get a breath.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47He gave me a shot of morphine, I was away then.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52And he said to me... He stood in the kitchen and he said to me,
0:41:52 > 0:41:54"I'm going to retire at the end of the year."
0:41:54 > 0:41:56And I said to him, "What?"
0:41:56 > 0:42:00And he said to me, "Yeah, I'm going to retire at the end of the year."
0:42:00 > 0:42:03And then about five minutes later, he sat down and says to me,
0:42:03 > 0:42:05"I'm only joking, Chanelle, but you know what,
0:42:05 > 0:42:08"I did that because I wanted to see what it felt like, me saying,
0:42:08 > 0:42:10"'I'm going to retire.'"
0:42:10 > 0:42:12And I said to him, "Well, you know, how did it sit with you?"
0:42:12 > 0:42:16And he said to me, "I just felt like getting sick after I said it."
0:42:17 > 0:42:19Do you know, it was...
0:42:19 > 0:42:21Bye, darling.
0:42:21 > 0:42:22Four years.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25Four years, it has to be like... 250...
0:42:25 > 0:42:27Even if I ride 250 winners in the next three years,
0:42:27 > 0:42:29that three years is enough.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31No, OK, anyway.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35- Three years is enough, right? - But I think we're making baby steps.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Yeah, he only said it to know what it feels like.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39I wanted to hear myself saying, I wanted to see what it felt like.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- It didn't work. - It didn't work.- No.- OK.
0:42:42 > 0:42:43We didn't like that.
0:42:43 > 0:42:45And now I think I'm invincible, so I'm all right.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26..and unseats McCoy.
0:43:26 > 0:43:27Gives him a tumbling fall...
0:43:56 > 0:43:59And If In Doubt gave the rider no chance.
0:44:00 > 0:44:01Tony McCoy had no chance.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21- Hi, Chappers, how are you? - 'I'm all right.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24'Well, I'm a lot better than you. How are you?'
0:44:24 > 0:44:27Erm, I'm not sure whether I'm worse physically or mentally,
0:44:27 > 0:44:31but, erm, neither's probably great at the moment, to be honest.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34But I suppose, probably for the last month I've been,
0:44:34 > 0:44:36erm, I've been suffering a little bit,
0:44:36 > 0:44:38and obviously because of that, I, you know...
0:44:38 > 0:44:41See, I was wanting to ride 300 winners this season,
0:44:41 > 0:44:44I couldn't afford to have any time off, and, erm...
0:44:44 > 0:44:47because of that, you know, you try and keep going,
0:44:47 > 0:44:48you try and keep going through it
0:44:48 > 0:44:50and then I had another fall on Tuesday, and, erm...
0:44:50 > 0:44:52I've been trying to get through it
0:44:52 > 0:44:54and sadly I'm going to have to sit out for a couple of weeks,
0:44:54 > 0:44:56which is not good, mentally or physically,
0:44:56 > 0:44:58but probably worse mentally at the moment.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02I wouldn't have carried on what I did,
0:45:02 > 0:45:04only that I thought I was going to ride 300 winners,
0:45:04 > 0:45:06so that's gone now.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08That's the end of that.
0:45:10 > 0:45:12- Have you packed my bags? - This... OK...
0:45:12 > 0:45:14Remind me why I'm bringing you again?
0:45:14 > 0:45:17I'm on suicide watch. That's why.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22I'm not packing for you, by the way, just so you know.
0:45:22 > 0:45:24So, what are the advantages of being married to you?
0:45:24 > 0:45:27Well, I've given you two nice kids, haven't I?
0:45:28 > 0:45:29Seriously.
0:45:32 > 0:45:33All right. Come on.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35If you want me to pack your bag, I will.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42I don't actually want to go on holidays.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44- Do you not?- No.
0:45:44 > 0:45:48God, Ant, talking about, like...
0:45:48 > 0:45:49wrecking my buzz.
0:45:49 > 0:45:51Why do you not want to go on holidays?
0:45:52 > 0:45:56Well, do I need to state the obvious?
0:45:56 > 0:45:58Because the only reason you're going on holiday
0:45:58 > 0:46:00- is because you're not riding. - Yeah.
0:46:00 > 0:46:01Yeah.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04But you've a week now to recharge your battery,
0:46:04 > 0:46:08get your collarbone in the sun, vitamin D.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12And can you just try and accept you have an injury
0:46:12 > 0:46:16and you are... You know what I mean,
0:46:16 > 0:46:18that you're not just going to be completely...
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Actually, can I just ask,
0:46:21 > 0:46:23you're not going to be completely frying my head for the next week.
0:46:23 > 0:46:25Because that's what'll happen.
0:46:26 > 0:46:29And, you know what, honey, it's not all about you.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30Since when?
0:46:31 > 0:46:33It's not...
0:46:33 > 0:46:37Because I have a job, I work,
0:46:37 > 0:46:40and it's nice for me to get away and de-stress as well
0:46:40 > 0:46:42from... on holidays,
0:46:42 > 0:46:44you know?
0:46:44 > 0:46:46I wonder if I just ate the whole packet, would it help me?
0:46:47 > 0:46:51No, Ant, because your liver can only absorb so much...
0:46:53 > 0:46:55You know, so much of the tablet.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59Right. How many nights are we there for?
0:46:59 > 0:47:02Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...
0:47:03 > 0:47:05..Friday. Five nights.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08You're starting to do my head in now
0:47:08 > 0:47:10and we haven't even got outside the door.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12I mean, I'm quite glad now that we're settled into the house
0:47:12 > 0:47:15that you have stopped telling me to pinch myself
0:47:15 > 0:47:16that I'm so lucky to be married to you.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20You've been injured every time we've been there.
0:47:20 > 0:47:22Even when we went on our honeymoon, you were in a sling.
0:47:22 > 0:47:25PHONE RINGS
0:47:25 > 0:47:27Well...
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Yeah, me collarbones.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31Erm, I dislocated it and it's broke as well
0:47:31 > 0:47:34so I was kind of getting through it
0:47:34 > 0:47:36then I got a fall on Tuesday and I kind of...
0:47:37 > 0:47:38That kind of ended it.
0:47:39 > 0:47:41So, we're going away in the morning, myself and Chanelle.
0:47:43 > 0:47:44Going to Barbados for a week.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48I'm only going, really, because the sun might help it.
0:47:48 > 0:47:50'For the first four or five days when I was off,
0:47:50 > 0:47:52'I was wanting to bang my shoulder off the walls,
0:47:52 > 0:47:54'you know what I mean, cos I was kind of thinking that
0:47:54 > 0:47:57'it deserves to be punished for doing this to me.'
0:47:58 > 0:48:01Some part has to take the blame, why should it be me?
0:48:03 > 0:48:05I'm not the one that's being weak,
0:48:05 > 0:48:07part of my body is being weak, not me.
0:48:14 > 0:48:15That was me.
0:48:15 > 0:48:16Yeah.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26That was me as well. Yeah.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41'I've not seen him since he went off to Barbados,
0:48:41 > 0:48:45'he looks healthier now. He looks as though the rest has done him good.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47'He has been severely beaten up
0:48:47 > 0:48:50'over the past few weeks, he hasn't ridden since November the 5th.
0:48:51 > 0:48:53'Yeah, I mean, he's had a nightmare...
0:48:53 > 0:48:55'The sort of run he couldn't afford.
0:48:55 > 0:48:59'He could hardly walk into the room.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01'White as a sheet, haggard.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05'For example, Muhammad Ali had a great chin,
0:49:05 > 0:49:09'no-one ever knocked him out. AP has got an amazing pain threshold.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11'And he's proud of it.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13'This was one of his last great frontiers,
0:49:13 > 0:49:15'the 300 winners in a season.'
0:49:17 > 0:49:19AP McCoy!
0:49:19 > 0:49:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:49:31 > 0:49:34Another incredible time,
0:49:34 > 0:49:38it seems you are going from strength to strength.
0:49:38 > 0:49:40Yeah, it's going well but, you know, though as I say,
0:49:40 > 0:49:43just keeping it going, that's the thing, isn't it?
0:49:43 > 0:49:45You know, making your job as hard as possible
0:49:45 > 0:49:47because you've been struggling pretty much all night, you know,
0:49:47 > 0:49:49with your interviews.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51I'm not sure whether you'll be back or not, will you?
0:49:51 > 0:49:55No, you're absolutely fine, you can keep talking as long as you want.
0:49:55 > 0:49:56I'm off, best of luck, thanks.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58When are you going to hang your coat up?
0:49:58 > 0:50:01Ah, look, as you said, you're only as good as your luck was.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Well, I was going to say, you're only as good as your last winner.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06In your case, you're only as good as your last haircut.
0:50:06 > 0:50:11And in your case, I don't know what the fuck you're still doing here.
0:50:11 > 0:50:14Ladies and gentlemen, AP McCoy!
0:50:14 > 0:50:16APPLAUSE
0:50:31 > 0:50:35'Alan, what do you think, in his mind, is the benchmark
0:50:35 > 0:50:38'when he says, "I've done it, that's enough"?
0:50:40 > 0:50:43'Is it 20 titles? Is it 5,000?
0:50:45 > 0:50:48'Is it to win another Gold Cup? Is it to win another National?'
0:50:48 > 0:50:51Oh, you want to try one, yeah? I don't think that'll be very good.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53'He obviously wants to win the big races,
0:50:53 > 0:50:55'but the fact is he's won them all.
0:50:57 > 0:51:01'I think he constantly wants to do things he hasn't done before
0:51:01 > 0:51:04'and that's why the 300 was such a big thing for him.
0:51:04 > 0:51:06'And that's why I still, in my mind,
0:51:06 > 0:51:09'wonder how that's going to affect him,
0:51:09 > 0:51:10'the failure to do it.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15'It could mean that he wants to go on even longer.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17'Failure in his mind.'
0:51:20 > 0:51:22So, Chanelle just said, "Can you come for dinner?"
0:51:22 > 0:51:28Yep, just said... Yeah, you know, we've been trying to get together,
0:51:28 > 0:51:32obviously, but it's, uh... She said, "Can come this week?"
0:51:32 > 0:51:34Er,
0:51:34 > 0:51:37and it was all arranged by Chanelle, nothing to do with AP. And...
0:51:41 > 0:51:45So, I don't honestly know is the answer.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49May just be dinner. I don't know.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Well, I got injured after that.
0:51:59 > 0:52:03And then I was gone riding for three days after that,
0:52:03 > 0:52:05but that was brain dead.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08But...
0:52:08 > 0:52:12- I actually... - Should we tell him our secret now?
0:52:12 > 0:52:14I actually said, I still think one of the best rides
0:52:14 > 0:52:17you'll ever give a horse was Good Mirage at Weatherby.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20- Oh, yeah.- Because you were riding that with one hand,
0:52:20 > 0:52:23- weren't you...- I know.- And proudly...- And it pulled like mad,
0:52:23 > 0:52:25it was a horrible horse to ride, in that sense.
0:52:25 > 0:52:29And the whole thing was that you were so stubborn about it,
0:52:29 > 0:52:31you know, that it was like well, you know,
0:52:31 > 0:52:33"I'm not listening to my collarbone,
0:52:33 > 0:52:35"I'm not, so what if it's shattered,
0:52:35 > 0:52:37"it's hanging off, my lung is punctured,
0:52:37 > 0:52:40"my ribs are broken. I will continue riding."
0:52:40 > 0:52:45That really mentally fucked with my head. Broke my heart, that did,
0:52:45 > 0:52:48thinking that I actually was going to ride 300 winners, and then,
0:52:48 > 0:52:50I'm not going to ride 300 winners.
0:52:50 > 0:52:52Oh, it was just...
0:52:52 > 0:52:54The thought of it makes me want to cry.
0:52:54 > 0:52:58And... And then I was, you know,
0:52:58 > 0:53:00and then I was thinking, you know,
0:53:00 > 0:53:02I should retire at the end of the year.
0:53:05 > 0:53:07I should retire at the end of the year and then I'm thinking,
0:53:07 > 0:53:10I don't even know when I should retire.
0:53:10 > 0:53:12I don't know whether I should announce I'm going to retire
0:53:12 > 0:53:14at the end of the year? I don't.
0:53:15 > 0:53:17You know, should I retire when I ride my 200th winner,
0:53:17 > 0:53:23or just retire in a week's time or six weeks' time or two months' time?
0:53:23 > 0:53:27Personally for me, I would like to go out on a winner.
0:53:27 > 0:53:31- What have you got now 1...9... - 182, was it?
0:53:31 > 0:53:36184, I think... So say you said that on the 200th you announce it...
0:53:36 > 0:53:37Mmm-hmm.
0:53:37 > 0:53:41So on a normal run of things, 16 winners.
0:53:41 > 0:53:44Announcing it on
0:53:44 > 0:53:48February 14th, 15th, around that time.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51Be the same as the 4,000 winners, you were on tour for like three or four days.
0:53:51 > 0:53:55Like I am, just because it's the right thing to do,
0:53:55 > 0:53:58I will hopefully retire on one of Jonjo's horses that JP owns.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Yeah. So it should be on the green and gold colours.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02It's got to be one of Jonjo's in the green and gold colours.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04Yeah, exactly.
0:54:04 > 0:54:05I'm not shocked.
0:54:07 > 0:54:11I'm upset because it's the end of a great story if you want to
0:54:11 > 0:54:15look it like that, but then in the cold light of day,
0:54:15 > 0:54:18what we've achieved, as I say, I... Whether you agree with me or not,
0:54:18 > 0:54:22no-one will... No-one will do that, it's not possible.
0:54:22 > 0:54:23Mmm.
0:54:23 > 0:54:27For someone to ride 2,000 winners, they've got to ride for 20 years,
0:54:27 > 0:54:30and ride 100 winners a year, for 20 years.
0:54:30 > 0:54:31That's half of what you've got.
0:54:33 > 0:54:34I think...
0:54:34 > 0:54:36- So that's the plan. - I think 200 is good.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39Yeah. No, I think 200 is right. Definitely.
0:54:39 > 0:54:40I think it's a good decision.
0:54:40 > 0:54:42- To me, it feels right. - Yeah, I think it feels right too.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44Let's just have a group hug!
0:54:44 > 0:54:48I... I think it feels right, I actually think it feels right.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51I actually feel happy now that I've spoke about it.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53I think once you get to that 200, and announce it,
0:54:53 > 0:54:55and then the...
0:54:55 > 0:54:57I think it'll take a lot of pressure, takes it...
0:54:57 > 0:55:00- It's there, it's done.- Yeah. - You know.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02I... I think there will be a bit of relief...
0:55:02 > 0:55:04- Yeah.- ..that I've been able to do it.
0:55:04 > 0:55:07- Do you feel relieved now? - A bit, yeah.
0:55:07 > 0:55:09BELL RINGS
0:55:35 > 0:55:37It's a cold winter's day here at Kempton,
0:55:37 > 0:55:40using the running rail, coming up the stand side,
0:55:40 > 0:55:43the danger looks to be Barry Geraghty, his great friend and rival
0:55:43 > 0:55:46on board West Wizard, but it's Minella Rocco
0:55:46 > 0:55:47in the JP McManus colours,
0:55:47 > 0:55:50those distinctive colours and now it's still out in front,
0:55:50 > 0:55:52Minella Rocco.
0:55:52 > 0:55:55West Wizard is the danger as AP McCoy gets into the drive position,
0:55:55 > 0:55:59as he closes in once again, on the magic 200. He's at 197.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01Jumping the final flight, jumps it well,
0:56:01 > 0:56:04West Wizard rather dives at that and is left floundering.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07But it's going to be another win for AP McCoy,
0:56:07 > 0:56:10the champ moves to 198 here in Kempton,
0:56:10 > 0:56:13with an effortless victory here on Minella Rocco.
0:56:13 > 0:56:17And, basically, I'm going to retire at the end of the season.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20So, um...
0:56:24 > 0:56:27- Wow, I'm so excited.- So...
0:56:29 > 0:56:30- So, it's, you know... - It's a sad thing.
0:56:30 > 0:56:33So, I may as well just go away and die now.
0:56:33 > 0:56:34Oh, my goodness.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37You can't, look at all these pages of things for you to do.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42Claire, you're... Claire's only getting warmed up now.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44All the things she's being saying no to.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46I've been waiting for this moment for so long.
0:56:46 > 0:56:47However, I do see, it is sad.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49- It is... - You can just do whatever you want
0:56:49 > 0:56:51with my tour, I don't care.
0:56:51 > 0:56:52- So...- I hate it.
0:56:54 > 0:56:59Would you like to be the face for peanut butter?
0:56:59 > 0:57:03Not the face of peanut butter, but there's this man versus horse,
0:57:03 > 0:57:05I don't know, it's like 40 miles or something.
0:57:05 > 0:57:07They have to race against a horse
0:57:07 > 0:57:09and see who gets to the finish line the quickest.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13However, it depends on what their strategies are, and it might fit in.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16Yeah, it's so...
0:57:18 > 0:57:20- Peanut butter? - That could be quite easy.
0:57:20 > 0:57:21It's a day of media work.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24And then, obviously, it's the face of this festival
0:57:24 > 0:57:26and lots of people race.
0:57:26 > 0:57:28So, he won't be on the front of a peanut butter jar?
0:57:28 > 0:57:29I won't have to look at him.
0:57:29 > 0:57:32- Like, up in the press. - No, he's not that kid.
0:57:32 > 0:57:34That peanut butter kid, or whatever...
0:57:40 > 0:57:42That's just a possibility.
0:57:45 > 0:57:49Depressing, isn't it? Such a depressing thought.
0:57:50 > 0:57:52Oh, honey.
0:57:55 > 0:57:56Anyway, I'm grand.
0:57:59 > 0:58:00Oh, well.
0:58:00 > 0:58:01You are struggling.
0:58:01 > 0:58:06You're not bad, it was always going to be a really hard decision
0:58:06 > 0:58:08and I think everyone's going to be pretty sad when they read it.
0:58:08 > 0:58:10Mmm.
0:58:10 > 0:58:12BELL RINGS
0:58:18 > 0:58:19Last call, thank you.
0:58:55 > 0:58:58'Flags up. Starters ready and are about to line up.
0:58:58 > 0:59:02'Line-up's over. We're off.'
0:59:02 > 0:59:05Mr Mole has just shied at the tape there.
0:59:05 > 0:59:07He was lined up in first place
0:59:07 > 0:59:09but he's dropped ten lengths behind the others,
0:59:09 > 0:59:12and gets away in last position.
0:59:12 > 0:59:15They take the water just once.
0:59:15 > 0:59:18It's fence number three, Uxizandre up and over safely.
0:59:23 > 0:59:27Show's in second place, behind Sire De Grugy.
0:59:27 > 0:59:29Red jacket, Jamie Moore.
0:59:32 > 0:59:36One length ahead of the nose band is Mr Mole and AP McCoy...
0:59:39 > 0:59:41It's going to be the first of the ditches.
0:59:41 > 0:59:43Number 11 will also be an open ditch.
0:59:46 > 0:59:50MUFFLED COMMENTARY
0:59:50 > 0:59:52..on the far side, coming up.
1:00:00 > 1:00:03Uxizandre, a big leap over...
1:00:16 > 1:00:17Into the straight.
1:00:17 > 1:00:21Four more fences to jump, Uxizandre on the right leading,
1:00:21 > 1:00:24on the left with a nose band is Mr Mole and between them
1:00:24 > 1:00:27the white face of Sire De Grugy, beginning to get closer...
1:00:27 > 1:00:30Fence four from the finish there. Mr Mole on the left,
1:00:30 > 1:00:34comes through to take it upside,
1:00:34 > 1:00:35Uxizandre's in second.
1:00:35 > 1:00:39Here's the final one of the ditches now and Mr Mole
1:00:39 > 1:00:42at the third last fence comes in towards him,
1:00:42 > 1:00:45over safely. And Sire De Grugy has unseated Jamie Moore!
1:00:45 > 1:00:48Sire De Grugy unseats Jamie Moore on the third last.
1:00:48 > 1:00:49And Mr Mole is left clear.
1:00:49 > 1:00:53Upsilon Bleu has joined Uxizandre in the second position.
1:00:53 > 1:00:54At the second last.
1:00:54 > 1:00:58And it's AP on Mr Mole as he heads down towards the final fence,
1:00:58 > 1:01:00he's 15 lengths ahead.
1:01:00 > 1:01:03Uxizandre with the riderless Sire De Grugy next to him.
1:01:03 > 1:01:06Upsilon Bleu is next at the final obstacle.
1:01:06 > 1:01:09Mr Mole up and over the last safely.
1:01:09 > 1:01:15Uxizandre's unseated Barry Geraghty at the last to leave Upsilon Bleu in third position.
1:01:15 > 1:01:17Karinga Dancer in fourth.
1:01:17 > 1:01:19And it's Mr Mole, messed around at the start,
1:01:19 > 1:01:23but he will give AP McCoy his 200th winner of the season.
1:01:25 > 1:01:28'200 of the season for Tony McCoy,
1:01:28 > 1:01:31'it's doubtful he's ridden many more dramatic races this year.'
1:01:58 > 1:02:00I'm going to reel off a stat here.
1:02:00 > 1:02:05I hope you don't just take it lightly but it's your tenth time
1:02:05 > 1:02:07that you've brought up a double century of winners.
1:02:07 > 1:02:10That is quite an incredible achievement.
1:02:10 > 1:02:11I'm going to tell you something else,
1:02:11 > 1:02:14it's going to be the last time I ride 200 winners.
1:02:14 > 1:02:17Because, I'm going to be retiring at the end of the season,
1:02:17 > 1:02:19- so there's a bit of news for you. - But...
1:02:19 > 1:02:21That is a bit of a bombshell.
1:02:21 > 1:02:24What's been the deciding factor in that, AP?
1:02:24 > 1:02:27Ah, look. It's just, um... I want to go out at the top,
1:02:27 > 1:02:31I want to go out as champion jockey, it'll be my 20th year
1:02:31 > 1:02:34if I can win the Jockey's Championship and...
1:02:34 > 1:02:37And, I want to go out while I still enjoy riding,
1:02:37 > 1:02:40and while I'm still at the top, so, erm...
1:02:41 > 1:02:42My mum and dad don't even know
1:02:42 > 1:02:44so they're going to find out on television.
1:02:44 > 1:02:46So, I think they'll be happy, to be fair.
1:02:46 > 1:02:49Well, AP that is amazing news.
1:02:49 > 1:02:53Just all I can say is congratulations and well done.
1:02:55 > 1:02:58AP's just announced he's retiring at the end of the season.
1:02:59 > 1:03:02A shell-shocked winners' enclosure here at Newbury.
1:03:05 > 1:03:0820 is a good number and I still enjoy it,
1:03:08 > 1:03:11I wanted to, hopefully, while I was still riding well,
1:03:11 > 1:03:15I wanted to go out while I was at the top, so...
1:03:15 > 1:03:17Uh, look,
1:03:17 > 1:03:19time waits for no man and it's not going to wait for me.
1:03:19 > 1:03:22- Quite emotional, aren't you? - I am, because I love riding.
1:03:22 > 1:03:25- You must be a very happy lady. - I am, but I don't know.
1:03:25 > 1:03:28It's funny because you don't know whether to be feeling happy or sad,
1:03:28 > 1:03:32but I think it's definitely a mix of both.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39What are you going to do? Get a job?
1:03:40 > 1:03:42You're just milking the PR again, aren't you?
1:03:42 > 1:03:44- Milking it.- You know what?
1:03:44 > 1:03:45No pressure to keep on.
1:03:45 > 1:03:47- Next year might just be your year. - My last!
1:03:47 > 1:03:49No pressure, Richard, but...
1:03:50 > 1:03:52Huh? I mean, I could just finish with you.
1:03:55 > 1:03:57Anyway, here's to a new life, here's to a new husband.
1:04:00 > 1:04:03Here's to a husband! I can have him on a Saturday and Sunday night.
1:04:03 > 1:04:05- Maybe?- Yeah.
1:04:05 > 1:04:07'What's the best decision you've ever made,
1:04:07 > 1:04:08'with regards to your riding career?'
1:04:09 > 1:04:12I think to become a jockey was the best decision I ever made.
1:04:12 > 1:04:16I've got a great way of life and I will really miss it.
1:04:16 > 1:04:17So I don't know what I'm going...
1:04:17 > 1:04:20I'll never find anything that's going to replace that buzz but
1:04:20 > 1:04:22I'm aware in sport you can't keep going forever.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24Thank you.
1:04:24 > 1:04:27AP McCoy, quite simply a legend.
1:04:31 > 1:04:34"..Just got back to the room
1:04:34 > 1:04:37"and loads of texts on phone about your husband's announcement.
1:04:37 > 1:04:40"I know it was going to always happen someday,
1:04:40 > 1:04:42"but my God, I'm still speechless.
1:04:42 > 1:04:46"The void left will be unfulfilled.
1:04:46 > 1:04:51"Love to you all and see you soon, Graham and Becky Lee."
1:04:51 > 1:04:52Tch. Aw.
1:04:54 > 1:04:55That is sweet.
1:04:58 > 1:04:59That was a lot of sadness.
1:04:59 > 1:05:01I don't think it's probably the first time
1:05:01 > 1:05:02that I've probably won a race.
1:05:02 > 1:05:04Didn't really think that I'd just won
1:05:04 > 1:05:07or didn't really think that I was really happy,
1:05:07 > 1:05:09you know, because of what was ahead.
1:05:11 > 1:05:16Convincing yourself that now is the time, you have to spit it out.
1:05:38 > 1:05:40'Well, it's a day we've all been looking forward to.
1:05:40 > 1:05:42'The start of the festival.
1:05:42 > 1:05:45'The biggest event of its type in the sport,
1:05:45 > 1:05:48'with four days of the most brilliant racing in prospect.
1:05:48 > 1:05:51'But there's going to be a strange feel about this year's festival
1:05:51 > 1:05:54'because we know it's going to be the last time we're going to see
1:05:54 > 1:05:56'AP, the champ in action...'
1:05:56 > 1:05:59There is nowhere, nowhere like Cheltenham,
1:05:59 > 1:06:03and, as a jockey, you'll always be judged on the amount of winners
1:06:03 > 1:06:04you rode there.
1:06:04 > 1:06:07There's been so much written, Tony, about this week
1:06:07 > 1:06:10and you in particular because it will be your final festival.
1:06:10 > 1:06:13Has that in any way affected your preparations or thinking?
1:06:13 > 1:06:16Um, not really to be honest, I'm quite lucky,
1:06:16 > 1:06:18that whenever I get out on a horse,
1:06:18 > 1:06:20then I'm pretty much on my own anyway.
1:06:20 > 1:06:22So, I'm quite good at blanking it all out.
1:06:22 > 1:06:24It will be a little different this year,
1:06:24 > 1:06:27obviously, because I know that this is the last chance, really,
1:06:27 > 1:06:30and it's going to be very different than it ever has been before,
1:06:30 > 1:06:34so I'm going to try and enjoy it but it's like any sport,
1:06:34 > 1:06:36it's a lot easier to enjoy it when you're winning, so...
1:06:36 > 1:06:38It's important to try and win.
1:06:38 > 1:06:39Tony, many thanks indeed.
1:06:39 > 1:06:42There we are, the great legendary Tony McCoy.
1:06:42 > 1:06:45He really is up there with some of the greatest sportsmen in the world
1:06:45 > 1:06:48and, of course, all eyes will be on him at Cheltenham this week
1:06:48 > 1:06:50and should he ride further winners here,
1:06:50 > 1:06:52it literally will bring the house down.
1:06:56 > 1:06:58'12 o'clock on Tuesday at Cheltenham,
1:06:58 > 1:07:00'especially for the first race,
1:07:00 > 1:07:04'you could hear a pin drop, but once it gets started
1:07:04 > 1:07:08'and the first winner's in, it becomes business as usual again.
1:07:08 > 1:07:11'And, obviously, the highs are higher and the lows are lower.'
1:07:11 > 1:07:18'It's high pressure, tense, it's what can define a year for everyone.
1:07:20 > 1:07:25'A win there means a hell of a lot and you have to be mentally tough
1:07:25 > 1:07:26'going to Cheltenham,
1:07:26 > 1:07:29'because however how much success you have there,
1:07:29 > 1:07:32'there's going to be more disappointments
1:07:32 > 1:07:33'than there is delight.'
1:07:33 > 1:07:37'The pressure is slightly more on you for those four days.
1:07:37 > 1:07:40'And it can be a very long week if things don't go, you know,
1:07:40 > 1:07:43'go your way, it can be the longest week of the year I think.'
1:07:43 > 1:07:45- COMMENTATOR:- Here it becomes a real reality
1:07:45 > 1:07:47and it could only happen here at Cheltenham.
1:07:47 > 1:07:49No other place in the world,
1:07:49 > 1:07:52it brings those dreams to fruition...
1:07:52 > 1:07:55'For AP, he knows he ain't going to get another chance,
1:07:55 > 1:07:57'this is it, and if he doesn't ride the winner here,
1:07:57 > 1:08:00'he will never be able to go back there and that will...
1:08:00 > 1:08:02'That will haunt.'
1:08:07 > 1:08:08They're off.
1:08:10 > 1:08:13And as they head down to the first of eight flights.
1:08:22 > 1:08:26But Douvan has taken it up, as they race to the final flight.
1:08:26 > 1:08:29He's suddenly over. And he's getting away.
1:08:29 > 1:08:32Douvan, five lengths, too good, Douvan wins the Supreme.
1:08:34 > 1:08:37A shake of the hands from Ruby Walsh. A great start to the meeting
1:08:37 > 1:08:39for the festivals leading rider,
1:08:39 > 1:08:41and hot favourite to be the leading rider this week.
1:08:41 > 1:08:47Douvan 2-1 favourite, Douvan wins the first race of the meeting.
1:08:47 > 1:08:50Barry Geraghty is level, AP is in third place,
1:08:50 > 1:08:54Indian Castle in the black and grey colours showing at fourth.
1:08:54 > 1:08:55But they will never get...
1:08:56 > 1:08:58And Barry Geraghty has won.
1:09:01 > 1:09:04AP McCoy, the champion jockey, on Jezki, green and yellow hoops,
1:09:04 > 1:09:07white cap, the defending champion for JP McManus,
1:09:07 > 1:09:08whose birthday it is today.
1:09:08 > 1:09:11Ruby Walsh in control at the moment.
1:09:11 > 1:09:14Jezki and AP McCoy tracking his old friend and rival
1:09:14 > 1:09:16on the inside there with Sam Twiston-Davies.
1:09:16 > 1:09:19But it's Faugheen who's bounded and clear up the hill,
1:09:19 > 1:09:22and he is a machine, Faugheen maintains his unbeaten record.
1:09:22 > 1:09:25And it's a treble for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.
1:09:25 > 1:09:26Faugheen is the champion.
1:09:26 > 1:09:27Arctic Fire in second.
1:09:32 > 1:09:34'Do you know what's interesting about this?
1:09:34 > 1:09:37'It's the first day of McCoy's final festival
1:09:37 > 1:09:41'and, yet, he's not even a supporting story so far.'
1:09:45 > 1:09:47'What will you notice, in Cheltenham,
1:09:47 > 1:09:51'as a rider, more so than anywhere else is the disappointment.
1:09:51 > 1:09:55'To watch different guys sitting by their pegs, staring into space,
1:09:55 > 1:09:57'white as sheets.
1:09:57 > 1:09:59'It's a funny place, a hard place.'
1:10:01 > 1:10:04'You know, this is an emotional time for AP, whatever anyone says.
1:10:04 > 1:10:09'He's a very cool, calm, calculated character but, you know, the time is running out for
1:10:09 > 1:10:12'this wonderful place to be his centre stage.'
1:10:12 > 1:10:15These are the smaller jumps, the hurdles.
1:10:15 > 1:10:18..In the black colours, who is out very wide on the track.
1:10:18 > 1:10:21He's then being stalked by Lyvius who's out wide.
1:10:21 > 1:10:24So too Tagliatelle as they go over the flight.
1:10:24 > 1:10:28Dell' Arca is down and Clondaw Kaempfer was badly hampered.
1:10:28 > 1:10:30And Ttebbob has been brought down.
1:10:30 > 1:10:32Dell' Arca fell in a dispute of second.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34Goodwood Mirage is now onto a strong ride
1:10:34 > 1:10:37as they go over the second.
1:10:37 > 1:10:38Goodwood Mirage made a bad mistake.
1:10:38 > 1:10:40He made a mistake.
1:10:45 > 1:10:48Go on, AP!
1:10:48 > 1:10:50He got involved in the finish but in the end,
1:10:50 > 1:10:53he's flattened out, and another disappointing race for AP
1:10:53 > 1:10:55on day two of the festival.
1:10:55 > 1:10:58'You know, I came into the week with a few chances
1:10:58 > 1:11:00'and knew it wasn't going to be easy. So...
1:11:00 > 1:11:02'You've just got to keep your head down and keep going
1:11:02 > 1:11:04'and hopefully it will happen at some point.
1:11:04 > 1:11:06'I'm not going to miss riding till the end of the season.
1:11:06 > 1:11:08'I'm lucky I can go out again
1:11:08 > 1:11:11'to the next race and have another go. So I'm just going
1:11:11 > 1:11:13'to try and enjoy my job for what's left of it, anyways.'
1:11:19 > 1:11:22'His valets, this morning, were telling us on the Morning Line,
1:11:22 > 1:11:25Chris Maude was saying that he's been a bit more subdued this week, very reflective,
1:11:25 > 1:11:29'as he, is trying to take it all in at his last festival, in that way.
1:11:29 > 1:11:31'It must be a very odd experience for him.'
1:11:34 > 1:11:37He's very melancholic this week. He hasn't had a winner.
1:11:37 > 1:11:44We've had two days gone and I didn't realise going into Cheltenham
1:11:44 > 1:11:46how much he desperately wanted a winner.
1:11:47 > 1:11:50He said, "I know I've got nothing to prove going into Cheltenham, but..."
1:11:50 > 1:11:55But he said, "This year, more than any year, in Cheltenham," he said, "I want a winner.
1:11:55 > 1:11:59"I just want to walk into that winner's enclosure one more time
1:11:59 > 1:12:00"and punch the air before I retire."
1:12:25 > 1:12:27So swinging the top turn
1:12:27 > 1:12:30and on towards the next and open ditch, it's six out
1:12:30 > 1:12:33and here's the champion jockey on Uxizandre
1:12:33 > 1:12:36who flies over with a growing lead again
1:12:36 > 1:12:37from Hidden Cyclone.
1:12:37 > 1:12:40And the pace looks really strong,
1:12:40 > 1:12:43it must be questionable if Uxizandre can keep this up.
1:12:43 > 1:12:46AP McCoy riding an aggressive race here.
1:12:47 > 1:12:52Uxizandre is jumping like a bunny rabbit, in front with a clear lead.
1:12:52 > 1:12:55Over Hidden Cyclone and Don Cossack.
1:12:55 > 1:13:00So, can AP McCoy win here on his festival farewell,
1:13:00 > 1:13:02in this right-hand chase still going great guns
1:13:02 > 1:13:06on Uxizandre, but they are a long way, still, from the finish.
1:13:06 > 1:13:09Uxizandre will be trying to save a little bit
1:13:09 > 1:13:11as they reach the top of the hill.
1:13:11 > 1:13:14Three fences to jump, it's AP on Uxizandre,
1:13:14 > 1:13:17who heads down the hill.
1:13:17 > 1:13:20Still out in front, leading to Eduard in the red and yellow.
1:13:20 > 1:13:22Uxizandre is over in front.
1:13:22 > 1:13:25Ma Filleule is still in there with a chance.
1:13:25 > 1:13:28They're followed by Wonderful Charm. Ballycasey is pulling up.
1:13:28 > 1:13:33Johns Spirit making ground on the rail, red with the black cap.
1:13:33 > 1:13:35Uxizandre continues to lead.
1:13:35 > 1:13:37Ma Filleule now scampering after the leader.
1:13:37 > 1:13:41Hidden Cyclone, Johns Spirit, Eduard and Don Cossack,
1:13:41 > 1:13:45these are the ones that count as they race towards the second last
1:13:45 > 1:13:47and Uxizandre is still out in front.
1:13:47 > 1:13:51Absolutely superb. Ma Filleule within two and a half lengths.
1:13:51 > 1:13:54Johns Spirit and Eduard on the outside.
1:13:54 > 1:13:59Coming to the final fence, can Uxizandre hold on for AP McCoy?
1:13:59 > 1:14:01Over safely.
1:14:01 > 1:14:02Ma Filleule hasn't given up the gallop.
1:14:02 > 1:14:04Now they race up the hill,
1:14:04 > 1:14:07Uxizandre went very fast from the outset from Ma Filleule.
1:14:07 > 1:14:10He's holding on, he's keeping up gamely,
1:14:10 > 1:14:13under the drive of a racing legend.
1:14:13 > 1:14:18AP McCoy, on his festival farewell, wins the ride here!
1:14:18 > 1:14:21What a tremendous example of motivation there.
1:14:21 > 1:14:27Horse and rider in perfect rhythm, Uxizandre attacking every fence,
1:14:27 > 1:14:31aggressively ridden by the champ, that was a sight to see.
1:14:43 > 1:14:46CHEERING
1:15:36 > 1:15:38- Desert Prince?- Desert Prince. You're right.
1:15:38 > 1:15:40- I think it is.- Desert Prince, I meant to say.
1:15:40 > 1:15:44Someone else is going to get the pleasure of riding him.
1:15:44 > 1:15:47He's a proper horse. He's nearly the model jumper, like, isn't he?
1:15:47 > 1:15:50- You'd like to be sitting on him, wouldn't you?- Yeah.
1:15:50 > 1:15:52I would like to be riding him.
1:15:52 > 1:15:54- That's the hardest thing.- Yeah.
1:15:54 > 1:15:57But the right things are sometimes always the hardest.
1:15:57 > 1:16:00But you'd be doing the same thing next year
1:16:00 > 1:16:03or you'd be doing the same thing the year after.
1:16:03 > 1:16:04Yeah.
1:16:06 > 1:16:08I think the timing is right.
1:16:08 > 1:16:11I don't think there's ever going to be a good time, so...
1:16:11 > 1:16:13Yeah, you're right.
1:16:16 > 1:16:20There's a few over on the other side. What's on the other side?
1:16:20 > 1:16:24Don't Push It is the one that's trimmed.
1:16:24 > 1:16:25What's the number he wore?
1:16:25 > 1:16:27- Is it 14?- Yeah.
1:16:27 > 1:16:31And Shutthefrontdoor, you know what number he is this year?
1:16:31 > 1:16:33- Seven.- Is he seven, is he?- Yeah.
1:16:35 > 1:16:37If Shutthefrontdoor could do the same, that'd be all right.
1:16:37 > 1:16:39I didn't realise he was number seven.
1:16:40 > 1:16:42Number seven.
1:16:42 > 1:16:44Anyway, six or seven's Don't Push It.
1:16:44 > 1:16:46Mmm.
1:16:46 > 1:16:48Yep, we could do with another one of them days...
1:16:48 > 1:16:49Yeah.
1:16:49 > 1:16:52..on Saturday.
1:16:52 > 1:16:54I'm riding Shutthefrontdoor in the Grand National
1:16:54 > 1:16:56and, if he wins, that'll be the end.
1:16:56 > 1:17:00So, I'd be happy to give up after winning the Grand National.
1:17:00 > 1:17:03Well, I wouldn't be happy but, you know,
1:17:03 > 1:17:04if you asked me at the moment,
1:17:04 > 1:17:06could I ride for another two weeks or win the Grand National,
1:17:06 > 1:17:08I'd pick the Grand National, you know.
1:17:08 > 1:17:10He ran in Sean Connery's colours, didn't he?
1:17:10 > 1:17:12That's right. Yeah.
1:17:13 > 1:17:15What do you reckon, horsey,
1:17:15 > 1:17:17will I like retirement or not?
1:17:17 > 1:17:19I could be in a home,
1:17:19 > 1:17:21people coming to pat me.
1:17:21 > 1:17:23People coming to pat me now and again,
1:17:23 > 1:17:24and take me out for a walk.
1:17:24 > 1:17:26HE LAUGHS
1:17:27 > 1:17:28I'm not so sure.
1:17:31 > 1:17:33Here, we are, this evening,
1:17:33 > 1:17:36going to be worshiping a true sporting legend.
1:17:39 > 1:17:41The final fence and it's Black Apalachi
1:17:41 > 1:17:42together with Don't Push It.
1:17:42 > 1:17:45Don't Push It landed in front for Tony McCoy,
1:17:45 > 1:17:47McCoy had a look round,
1:17:47 > 1:17:50he's never, ever won this race in his glittering career.
1:17:50 > 1:17:52He now only has to see off Black Apalachi...
1:17:52 > 1:17:56The last couple of days haven't been so good.
1:17:56 > 1:17:57I don't really want to give up.
1:17:57 > 1:18:00It's all come good for Tony McCoy!
1:18:00 > 1:18:03He has, at last, won the Grand National!
1:18:05 > 1:18:08Yeah, I could keep going for another two or three years, but...
1:18:08 > 1:18:10but always worried about people thinking
1:18:10 > 1:18:12that I'm going on too long, you know, so...
1:18:12 > 1:18:15..Champion jockey, AP McCoy!
1:18:15 > 1:18:17APPLAUSE
1:18:18 > 1:18:20Time waits for no man,
1:18:20 > 1:18:22especially not one in sport, so...
1:18:24 > 1:18:28..I think it's important that I quit while ahead.
1:18:28 > 1:18:30It's not the jockey of our generation,
1:18:30 > 1:18:33it's the jockey of generations.
1:18:33 > 1:18:35The key with AP McCoy's career
1:18:35 > 1:18:38is to take horse racing
1:18:38 > 1:18:39from the racing pages
1:18:39 > 1:18:40to the sports pages,
1:18:40 > 1:18:42to the news pages.
1:18:42 > 1:18:45AP McCoy, he's riding in his record 20th Grand National...
1:18:45 > 1:18:46I mean, let's be perfectly honest,
1:18:46 > 1:18:49I think we'll all agree that he's the story everybody wants, isn't he?
1:18:49 > 1:18:50AUDIENCE: Yes!
1:18:54 > 1:18:56'I know the weekends that are left.
1:18:57 > 1:19:00'This weekend - the Aintree Grand National,
1:19:00 > 1:19:03'the following weekend - Sandown,
1:19:03 > 1:19:06'the following weekend I'll be in a home, probably,
1:19:06 > 1:19:08'getting counselling for my addiction.'
1:19:11 > 1:19:13'Can't say I'm looking forward to it but...'
1:19:13 > 1:19:16AP McCoy has said... We know he's retiring this season,
1:19:16 > 1:19:18but he has said that, if he wins the Grand National,
1:19:18 > 1:19:20he'd hop off Shutthefrontdoor,
1:19:20 > 1:19:22he'd pat him on the neck, and he'd say, "That's it."
1:19:22 > 1:19:23And he'd retire there and then.
1:19:23 > 1:19:26And a good name, isn't it, Shutthefrontdoor?
1:19:26 > 1:19:27You know, it...
1:19:27 > 1:19:29"Shutthefrontdoor on your way out."
1:19:29 > 1:19:31'If I won it, I kind of feel,
1:19:31 > 1:19:33"Maybe I could justify riding for a bit longer."
1:19:34 > 1:19:36But, I mean, I dream a lot
1:19:36 > 1:19:39but I'm not even sure I can dream that much of a dream.
1:19:39 > 1:19:43- RADIO:- What AP does on a day-to-day basis is very dangerous.
1:19:43 > 1:19:46I think he has broken, I think now, nearly every bone in his body
1:19:46 > 1:19:49so, from a health and safety point of view,
1:19:49 > 1:19:51I'm delighted that he is getting out,
1:19:51 > 1:19:54and, you know, because every day he goes to work,
1:19:54 > 1:19:57he's got an ambulance following behind him.
1:19:57 > 1:19:59Thank you. Cheers.
1:19:59 > 1:20:01'He'll have the pressure of what could be his last ride today.
1:20:01 > 1:20:03'There's going to be a gaping hole, isn't there?
1:20:03 > 1:20:05'I mean, for most of our modern racing lives,
1:20:05 > 1:20:07'Tony McCoy has been the man to beat,
1:20:07 > 1:20:09'and the man they can't beat...'
1:20:09 > 1:20:11'It's all going to be different.'
1:20:13 > 1:20:15'For the last 20-odd years,
1:20:15 > 1:20:17'I have been obsessed with what I do.'
1:20:21 > 1:20:23'You know, I find myself, in the weighing room,
1:20:23 > 1:20:24looking down at lads that weren't born
1:20:24 > 1:20:27'when I was champion jockey, you know.'
1:20:32 > 1:20:36'I'd always hoped that I'd never have to say those words,
1:20:36 > 1:20:37'that I'm retiring.
1:20:38 > 1:20:41'I kind of wish I'd kept quiet, but...
1:20:41 > 1:20:44'this was going to happen at some point.'
1:20:44 > 1:20:46Oh, Gillian, this is the last time.
1:20:46 > 1:20:48It's the last time, sweetie.
1:20:49 > 1:20:51'You know, so it's about how you deal with it
1:20:51 > 1:20:54'and trying to deal with it the best you can.'
1:20:54 > 1:20:56Four minutes, lads, will you just forget about it?
1:20:59 > 1:21:01'I'd say it's the rest of my life,
1:21:01 > 1:21:04'the first day of the end of my life, and then...
1:21:04 > 1:21:05'try and make the most of it.'
1:21:05 > 1:21:09They're away for the 2015 Crabbie's Grand National.
1:21:11 > 1:21:15Whoo!
1:21:15 > 1:21:16Saint Are amongst the leaders,
1:21:16 > 1:21:18Bob Ford towards the inside,
1:21:18 > 1:21:20followed by River Choice
1:21:20 > 1:21:22and also up there is Wyck Hill.
1:21:25 > 1:21:27To the ground for the first time, Bob Ford.
1:21:27 > 1:21:29Gas Line Boy is a faller at the first.
1:21:37 > 1:21:40Oscar Time and then comes Royale Knight and Dolatulo.
1:21:42 > 1:21:45Rebel Rebellion out in front,
1:21:45 > 1:21:46Balthazar King is down...
1:21:52 > 1:21:55AP McCoy has had a lovely run round so far,
1:21:55 > 1:21:57green and yellow hoops, white cap,
1:21:57 > 1:21:59just to the left of your picture.
1:22:04 > 1:22:07Come on, Shutthefrontdoor.
1:22:07 > 1:22:08Come on, honey.
1:22:08 > 1:22:11Rainbow Hunter wide of Shutthefrontdoor
1:22:11 > 1:22:14still well in touch as they clear the water.
1:22:16 > 1:22:18'How do people pass the day
1:22:18 > 1:22:20'that don't have jobs?'
1:22:20 > 1:22:23Shutthefrontdoor is absolutely cruising for AP
1:22:23 > 1:22:24in fourth position.
1:22:24 > 1:22:26'I don't know how I'd pass every day.'
1:22:26 > 1:22:29He's got every chance as they clear the next...
1:22:29 > 1:22:33The Druid's Nephew slithers to the ground and is out of the race.
1:22:33 > 1:22:34Definitely got a chance now.
1:22:37 > 1:22:40'I am an addict to my way of life.'
1:22:41 > 1:22:44'I'm an addict to riding horses.
1:22:44 > 1:22:48'I'm an addict to winning because it's like a drug.
1:22:51 > 1:22:54'There's horses falling around you.
1:22:54 > 1:22:57'There's not much room and you don't get to see much,
1:22:57 > 1:22:59'but I suppose, near the end,
1:22:59 > 1:23:01'I suppose the adrenaline is in winning.
1:23:01 > 1:23:04'That's what it's all about.
1:23:04 > 1:23:05'It's all about winning.'
1:23:05 > 1:23:07Jump this one well. Jump this one well.
1:23:07 > 1:23:10Many Clouds, Shutthefrontdoor just dived.
1:23:10 > 1:23:11Portrait King.
1:23:11 > 1:23:13He's a faller there.
1:23:13 > 1:23:14Shutthefrontdoor is second.
1:23:14 > 1:23:15Saint Are is third...
1:23:15 > 1:23:19'I don't think, in 20 years, I've ever been really content.'
1:23:19 > 1:23:22'I didn't feel that I was ever as good as I wanted to be.'
1:23:22 > 1:23:24Two to jump, he's got a chance.
1:23:24 > 1:23:26He's got a chance. He's got a chance.
1:23:26 > 1:23:29'I wish I hadn't been like that.'
1:23:29 > 1:23:30He's definitely got a chance now.
1:23:30 > 1:23:33He's... He's definitely got a chance now.
1:23:35 > 1:23:37'It would be great not to have a care in the world
1:23:37 > 1:23:41'or not have to worry about whether you're winning or not winning.
1:23:41 > 1:23:42'It's not the end of the world.'
1:23:46 > 1:23:49'Winning, in a lot of ways, is not the end of the world...
1:23:51 > 1:23:53'..but it's the end of the world for me.'
1:23:53 > 1:23:54Shutthefrontdoor...
1:23:54 > 1:23:56Monbeg Dude is still staying on.
1:23:56 > 1:23:57They make the long run in now
1:23:57 > 1:24:00and Many Clouds still out in front
1:24:00 > 1:24:02by two or three lengths to Saint Are...
1:24:02 > 1:24:03Monbeg Dude still stays on,
1:24:03 > 1:24:06then Shut... Many Clouds by two lengths!
1:24:06 > 1:24:09INDISTINCT COMMENTARY
1:24:09 > 1:24:12It's Leighton Aspell, back-to-back Grand Nationals,
1:24:12 > 1:24:13he wins on Many Clouds.
1:24:13 > 1:24:15Many Clouds has won the National.
1:24:15 > 1:24:18'Now I'm starting to get it into my thick skull that it's happened.'
1:24:18 > 1:24:22Monbeg Dude in third. Alvarado fills out for fourth again.
1:24:22 > 1:24:24Then Shutthefrontdoor.
1:24:24 > 1:24:25'The end.'
1:24:25 > 1:24:27Whoo!
1:24:27 > 1:24:29'It happens to everyone, apparently.'
1:24:31 > 1:24:33'The end.'
1:24:49 > 1:24:52Hello! How are you?
1:24:52 > 1:24:54Good. Thank you.
1:24:54 > 1:24:56Hi, there.
1:24:56 > 1:25:00- COMMENTARY ON RADIO: - Synchronised on the outside.
1:25:00 > 1:25:03And Synchronised! He's going to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
1:25:03 > 1:25:07AP IN RADIO: Time waits for no man...
1:25:07 > 1:25:09The last fence in sight, tomorrow,
1:25:09 > 1:25:12the 4:25 at Sandown,
1:25:12 > 1:25:15so, for the last time as a full-time jockey.
1:25:15 > 1:25:17Evening, AP McCoy.
1:25:17 > 1:25:18Good evening, how are you?
1:25:18 > 1:25:20- Are you all right? - I'm OK, thanks.
1:25:20 > 1:25:22Good. AP, we've got a little surprise for you,
1:25:22 > 1:25:24- I hope you don't mind.- OK. - Just a little bit of fun.
1:25:24 > 1:25:27We've got a lovely lady, called Julia, on the line.
1:25:27 > 1:25:29- Now, Julia is a careers coach...- Right.
1:25:29 > 1:25:32..and we wondered if you decided to do, you know, a proper job...
1:25:32 > 1:25:35Not a proper job, but a different job, what you'd be good at.
1:25:35 > 1:25:36Not snooker.
1:25:36 > 1:25:38Got to get this one yet.
1:25:38 > 1:25:40The first one is a racing car driver.
1:25:40 > 1:25:42What are you going to do?
1:25:42 > 1:25:44I'm not qualified to do anything.
1:25:44 > 1:25:45LAUGHTER
1:25:45 > 1:25:46I left school when I was 15.
1:25:46 > 1:25:49- Did you go training for this? - I took a lot of training.
1:25:49 > 1:25:50LAUGHTER
1:25:50 > 1:25:52It's what you would want to do. Chef?
1:25:52 > 1:25:54I can't cook. I've never cooked in my life.
1:25:54 > 1:25:55Never?
1:25:55 > 1:25:57You've never cooked anything?
1:25:57 > 1:25:58You don't know where the saucepans are?
1:25:58 > 1:26:00AP LAUGHS, LAUGHTER
1:26:00 > 1:26:02- Do you know how to turn the cooker on?- No.- No.
1:26:02 > 1:26:04LAUGHTER
1:26:04 > 1:26:06I'm not talented enough to do those things.
1:26:06 > 1:26:08It's much easier to get on the best horse, with the best trainer
1:26:08 > 1:26:11and just go round the circuit and just beat everyone else.
1:26:11 > 1:26:12LAUGHTER
1:26:12 > 1:26:15What did your mum want you to be when you were little?
1:26:15 > 1:26:17A lot of things. A priest was one of them, but I think...
1:26:17 > 1:26:19LAUGHTER
1:26:19 > 1:26:22- Would you not have been a good priest?- I don't think so.
1:26:30 > 1:26:31Did you get yourself sorted?
1:26:31 > 1:26:33Yeah.
1:26:33 > 1:26:36- Didn't get a sleep.- I didn't think you'd get a sleep.
1:26:36 > 1:26:37PHONE RINGS
1:26:52 > 1:26:53There's a picture for you.
1:26:53 > 1:26:54HE LAUGHS
1:26:57 > 1:26:58'I'm a total control freak.
1:27:01 > 1:27:03'Control is what makes you.
1:27:06 > 1:27:09'You know, if you lose control, you lose everything.
1:27:12 > 1:27:15'Every part of my life was structured and controlled,
1:27:15 > 1:27:17'I thought...
1:27:18 > 1:27:23'..but I could never control getting old, you know.
1:27:23 > 1:27:26'That's what got the better of me in the end.'
1:27:45 > 1:27:46'He was...
1:27:47 > 1:27:50'..obsessed about control,
1:27:50 > 1:27:52'control of everything in his life.
1:27:52 > 1:27:55'You know, with the horses he was riding,
1:27:55 > 1:27:57'the number of winners he was having,
1:27:57 > 1:28:00'controlling his weight, controlling me.
1:28:00 > 1:28:02'Controlling our relationship.'
1:28:05 > 1:28:09'It... It was all about him...
1:28:10 > 1:28:14'..and he became a really selfish person.
1:28:14 > 1:28:16Ladies and gentlemen,
1:28:16 > 1:28:19all of us here at Sandown Park today...
1:28:19 > 1:28:21'I think you have to be selfish,
1:28:21 > 1:28:23'I think it has to be all about you.
1:28:25 > 1:28:27'I'm really embarrassed to say it,
1:28:27 > 1:28:29'but no-one else in the world was important.'
1:28:29 > 1:28:32..what has been, quite simply, an extraordinary career.
1:28:34 > 1:28:38AP McCoy, today, will be crowned champion jockey
1:28:38 > 1:28:42for the 20th consecutive season.
1:28:42 > 1:28:45You are showing your appreciation
1:28:45 > 1:28:47for a legend of our time.
1:28:49 > 1:28:53AP McCoy will now be escorted into the paddock.
1:28:53 > 1:28:55Here he is, ladies and gentlemen,
1:28:55 > 1:28:58the one and only AP McCoy!
1:28:58 > 1:29:01CHEERING
1:29:01 > 1:29:04'I think a lot of the time, Chanelle would think that...
1:29:04 > 1:29:06'I was a lot more interested in my career
1:29:06 > 1:29:08'than I was in my relationship and...
1:29:10 > 1:29:12'..in some ways, she was right.'
1:29:16 > 1:29:19'Yeah, in some ways she was right, which is not a good thing but...
1:29:20 > 1:29:21'..luckily, she stuck it out.
1:29:24 > 1:29:28'I pinch myself every morning. I'm a very lucky person...
1:29:28 > 1:29:30'that she... that she stuck with it.'
1:29:30 > 1:29:34WHISTLING, APPLAUSE
1:29:34 > 1:29:37You better enjoy every minute of it, enjoy it.
1:29:43 > 1:29:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1:29:46 > 1:29:50'It's what made me happy, it's what I wanted to do.
1:29:51 > 1:29:53'Obviously, there was times it drove me mad
1:29:53 > 1:29:56'but, in a contradictory way,
1:29:56 > 1:29:58'it's what floated my boat, like, you know.
1:30:00 > 1:30:02'And the more you win, the more you want to win,
1:30:02 > 1:30:04'the more that the need becomes greed
1:30:04 > 1:30:07'and I think, I think you have to be like that.'
1:30:10 > 1:30:12We saw him walking out for the last ride
1:30:12 > 1:30:14and the smile was a little more forced
1:30:14 > 1:30:16because he knows that this extraordinary career,
1:30:16 > 1:30:18his way of life, in a sense,
1:30:18 > 1:30:20is going to come to an end.
1:30:20 > 1:30:22Sweetheart, enjoy watching this race.
1:30:22 > 1:30:24This is Daddy's last race ever.
1:30:25 > 1:30:27Archie, you have no idea what's going on, have you?
1:30:27 > 1:30:29Yeah.
1:30:29 > 1:30:32He'll watch this when he's, like, 21.
1:30:33 > 1:30:36Let's remember that, a celebration of a great career,
1:30:36 > 1:30:38but we want the headlines,
1:30:38 > 1:30:41we want Box Office to give him the perfect send off here,
1:30:41 > 1:30:44in the silks of JP McManus.
1:30:44 > 1:30:47School, he's going to do the school runs.
1:30:47 > 1:30:49Has anyone backed him, by the way?
1:30:49 > 1:30:53They jump away and there's a cheer from the grandstand
1:30:53 > 1:30:55even though they're in the back straight.
1:30:55 > 1:30:58Raving Black, Box Office jumping just in the midfield
1:30:58 > 1:30:59on the inside.
1:30:59 > 1:31:00Green yellow hoops, white cap...
1:31:06 > 1:31:07'I remember coming home one evening
1:31:07 > 1:31:10'and he was sitting there just sobbing,
1:31:10 > 1:31:12'absolutely sobbing...
1:31:13 > 1:31:16'..because he was so petrified
1:31:16 > 1:31:19'that he wasn't going to be champion jockey the next year.
1:31:22 > 1:31:24'It was like looking at somebody
1:31:24 > 1:31:26'who was living in fear
1:31:26 > 1:31:27'of themselves.'
1:31:27 > 1:31:31INDISTINCT COMMENTARY
1:31:33 > 1:31:35Are you watching?
1:31:37 > 1:31:39INDISTINCT COMMENTARY
1:31:43 > 1:31:45'I used to think the demons had Olympic games
1:31:45 > 1:31:46'in my head sometimes...
1:31:49 > 1:31:53'But, at the same time, in a crazy, mad kind of way,
1:31:53 > 1:31:55'it's obviously what made me happy.
1:31:56 > 1:31:58'It's obviously what made me happy.
1:32:00 > 1:32:01'Torturing myself.
1:32:03 > 1:32:06'Trying to figure out why that every time I went out on a horse,
1:32:06 > 1:32:08'I didn't win, I could never figure that out.
1:32:11 > 1:32:13'Maybe I thought if I could work that out,
1:32:13 > 1:32:15'then I would have been content.
1:32:18 > 1:32:19'Cos it's slowly started to register
1:32:19 > 1:32:22'that maybe it wasn't possible after all.'
1:32:22 > 1:32:25C'mon, champ.
1:32:27 > 1:32:30'I mean, I wouldn't change it for the world
1:32:30 > 1:32:33'because it's made him the person he is today.'
1:32:33 > 1:32:35- Come on, honey.- Come on!
1:32:35 > 1:32:38'And it's made us the couple we are today.'
1:32:38 > 1:32:41He will have to perform just one more final miracle
1:32:41 > 1:32:43and it doesn't look like it's happening.
1:32:43 > 1:32:45And it's Gran Maestro from Brother Tedd at the last...
1:32:45 > 1:32:48- Come on, Anthony!- Come on!
1:32:48 > 1:32:49Come on, honey.
1:32:51 > 1:32:54And it's Brother Tedd on the near side of Gran Maestro,
1:32:54 > 1:32:56and Brother Tedd,
1:32:56 > 1:32:59and Richard Johnson is the man that's finished second to McCoy
1:32:59 > 1:33:01in so many championships,
1:33:01 > 1:33:02he gets the win.
1:33:02 > 1:33:04CHEERING
1:33:04 > 1:33:06Then Gran Maestro, McCoy in third on Box Office.
1:33:06 > 1:33:08Then Go Odee Go in fourth.
1:33:14 > 1:33:16I'm so jealous. I'm so jealous.
1:33:29 > 1:33:32Enjoy it. Enjoy it, you deserve everything.
1:33:32 > 1:33:34Dave Roberts, his agent,
1:33:34 > 1:33:37the man who's booked every one of his rides,
1:33:37 > 1:33:39for 21 years, here in Great Britain,
1:33:39 > 1:33:42is coming up the racecourse with him.
1:33:55 > 1:33:58CHEERING
1:34:06 > 1:34:08'That is the end.
1:34:09 > 1:34:10'That's it, it's, it's...
1:34:10 > 1:34:12'It's gone. It's over.
1:34:14 > 1:34:18'As a professional jockey, I am never going to ride a race again.
1:34:21 > 1:34:24'I'm a has-been, I'm a retired sports person.
1:34:28 > 1:34:30'I don't see it as a second life.
1:34:33 > 1:34:35'I probably see it more as a first life, really.
1:34:38 > 1:34:40'The last one was more a dream than a life, really...
1:34:45 > 1:34:46'..but I just woke up.
1:34:50 > 1:34:53'So, I might have lived the dream, but I'm awake now.'