HE will sit in the jockeys' room this morning, four hours before the first race, staring into a future that must include winners.
HE will sit in the jockeys' room this morning, four hours before the first race, staring into a future that must include winners.
Tony McCoy celebrates Gold Cup victory on Synchronised at last year's Cheltenham Festival. Picture: Getty
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Hugh MacDonald
The Cheltenham Festival is the greatest week of the racing calendar. It soars on hype, it wallows in alcohol and it trembles with excitement. Anthony Peter McCoy views it differently. "It's work,'' he said quietly last week. He has ridden more than 3700 winners in a profession where longevity is compromised by severe injury and its consequent impact on the nervous system. He will be 39 in May and can look back on the agony and the anguish.
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