AP McCoy rides 4,000 winners: see how he fared on Great British racecourses with our graphic No milestone in the safer sports of football, cricket, tennis or golf could exceed the splendour of Tony McCoy's 4,000 winners over jumps. Uninsurable, the great AP is also unsurpassable. Boxing, rugby or motor racing might come to the debate with examples of comparable physical stubbornness. But after 15,000 or so races and a thousand falls - after 18 consecutive jockeys" titles and 24 years in the saddle - McCoy is first past the post in sport's Daily Courage Stakes. His food-deprived, bone-breaking, mud-speckled routine has stretched far beyond the limits of normal endurance. Just as strikingly, McCoy's appetite for throwing horses over hurdles and steeplechase fences ought to have been stated long ago: at 3,000 winners, say. On the day another dark-eyed hero of the winter game, Peter Scudamore, retired in April 1993, with a then record 1,678 winners, he said: "I'd look down the list of runners in novice chases and I'd think that I didn't want to risk injury. I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for chasing titles anymore. It was coming towards the end of the season, and quite honestly I didn't feel like putting in 100 per cent effort anymore.