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Marvellous! McCoy’s reaction shows why this is
the
race, and Aintree
the
festival!!
OK, I cried! That was so deserved and he was just so thrilled. I was ecstatic, especially on hearing that the horses were ok. I also picked out the 2nd and 4th home, along with Irish Raptor, so a good day for me considering I’ve failed to get a horse home last few attempts! Shame with a new puppy in the house I never had the time to get to a bookies!
CONGRATULATIONS AP and JP! Two people who have given so much for the sport. And well done Jonjo, the hoodoo finally laid to rest.
B****Y FANTASTIC!!!
He has to win Sports Personality of the Year now surely. Also so glad to hear all runners and riders have come back safely.
Seconded. I would love to see him win this year. He’s been at the top for so long, so few sportsmen maintain such a record and he’s worked so hard for it. Lets not forget that despite their hiccup he gave Denman a fantastic ride to get 2nd in the Gold cup this year!
My speculative punt, Maljimar, was running a blinding race until he knuckled over at the second Bechers.
I’m sure he would have been there at the end if not coming down, but i’m glad for any jockey to get that elusive win after 15 years of trying.
Good for him.Lost on all four of my bets but sat there delighted at the result. If ever any jockey has served as a great advert for the sport it is AP and I am delighted for him.
Agree completely with all the sentiments expressed – very well done indeed AP, now you’ve won everything!
Not often you see AP McCoy so emotional. Clearly meant the world to him and after all he’s given racing he deserved that moment.
Very well done to Jonjo O’Neill also and to JP McManus. All three of them very well deserving of their success.
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I am so pleased that Ap has done it at last. I think I was riding the final couple of fences with him I was so excited. He has to win Sports Personality of the Year now surely. Also so glad to hear all runners and riders have come back safely.
Me too.
He does a proper days work and longer hours than the average person. You’d never see him walking out of clubs in the early hours and stories about him cheating. Can’t fault the guy and what a reaction.
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Although I dont like the race I think today showed why the sport is such a rollercoster of emotions i.e One of JP’s runners plants himself at the start and his other runner goes onto win.
Talk about down one minute and up the next!!!!
More tosh about McCoy not being good on chasers.
The guy is a a genuine legend and arguably the best jockey of all time.
He now surely has nothing to prove.
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Both Don’t Push It and AP were fantastic well done! Talk about the perfect ride…….I could hear him thinking all the way round.
An absolutely brilliant piece of training by Jonjo and for who better than "The Legend" himself JP McManus?
The story goes that one of the greatest days for them was when Jonjo pulled JP out of the fire, winnning the Gold Cup on Dawn Run.
Hardly amazing they are still a team but this must have even topped that great day in 1996.
It’s one thing pulling of a touch but to do it in the toughest race is the world when so much can go wrong?
Absloutely marvelous!!!
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I dont think todays victory should over shadow just how poor a trainer I think Jonjo is.
He is given endless amounts of resources and rarely, very rarely indeed produces Grade wins for his owner.
In my view he is not a top class trainer, its a shame JP has most of his horses there but I guess loyalty is worth a lot to JP and its his money, his horses, his choice….
If it was not for loyatly im sure JP would drop Jonjo. Just by chance that all JP’s best horses are with other trainers who half about 10% of what O Neill has in terms of numbers?
Well done to AP! I wasn’t particularly bothered about him not having won the race beforehand because I didn’t realise how much it meant to him. He hid it very well. I think even he was surprised by his emotion afterwards
Brilliant race all round and the best news was all the horses and jockeys got home safely.
I couldn’t be more thrilled.Also what seemed to be glossed over in the excitement was the brilliant ride Sam Twiston Davies must have had on Big Bud to finish 5th. I bet he was chuffed to bits too.
Only downside was that I picked King John’s Castle in the work sweepstake
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