Tony McCoy 4,000: A timeline of his career highlights
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1996: Is crowned Champion Jockey for the first time, with 175 victories
2002: Passes Sir Gordon Richards’s 1947 record of 269 winners while securing a new British record of 289 wins a single season.
2002: Becomes the most successful jump jokey of all time after beating Richard Dunwoody’s record of 1,699 victories.
2004: Wins his ninth Champion Jokey title.
2010: Eventually wins Grand National after fifteen failed attempts.
2010: As a result he is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the first ever jockey to be awarded with the prize.
2011: Awarded an OBE from the Queen in recognition of his services to Horse Racing.
2013: Becomes Champion Jockey for the eighteenth consecutive year.
Major racing wins:
Grand National, Gold Cup, Champion Chase, Champion Hurdle, King George, Ryanair Chase, RSA Chase, Tingle Creek, Arkle, Welsh Grand National, Scottish Grand National, Midlands Grand National, Irish Grand National, Lexus Chase, Galway Plate
Racing highlights:
Distance: 1,000
Horse: Majadou
Track: Cheltenham
Date: Dec 1999
Distance: 1,500
Horse: Celtic Native
Track: Exeter
Date: Dec 2001
Distance: 2,000
Horse: Magical Bailiwick
Track: Wincanton
Date: Jan 2004
Distance: 3,000
Horse: Restless D’Artaix
Track: Plumpton
Date: Feb 2009
Grand National
Horse: Don’t Push It
Track: Aintree
Date: April 2010
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