Is AP McCoy The Best Jockey? Did AP McCoy Ride 300 Winners In A Season?

Northern Irish former National Hunt horse racing jockey, AP McCoy OBE, is the greatest National Hunt jockey of all time.

He has been Champion Jockey 20 times (that’s every year since he went professional in the 1995/96 season), and has won almost every big race there is to win.

Among his most high-profile winners are the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI Chase, and the 2010 Grand National.

He was also named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010 and retired in April 2015. AP joined the Channel 4 Racing team in November 2015 and will be offering his professional opinion on some of the biggest race meetings on the calendar.

Did AP McCoy Ride 300 Winners In A Season?
After winning the Jump Jockeys’ Championship again in 2002/03, with 258 winners McCoy set his sights on riding 300 winners in 2003/04; he suffered a major setback when breaking his arm in a fall at Worcester in June, with just 36 winners on the board, but still managed 209 winners in the season as a whole.

McCoy rode a record of 4,358 winners and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year that he was a professional.