![]() ![]() You can be satisfied with your career when you’ve won those for sure.” “I think every jockey dreams of winning either the Grand National or the Gold Cup when they start off, so to win both was just fantastic. They were some fantastic times with great camaraderie. To ride against people like Ruby, Paul Townend, Barry Geraghty, AP McCoy, Mick Fitzgerald - I’ll even throw Fitzy in! - and so on was phenomenal and I shared the weighing room with some of the best. “I wouldn’t put myself in the same league as Ruby (Walsh) and Richard (Johnson) but I think lads like those made me a better rider. The Gold Cup was definitely the pinnacle. In those years around 2017, things just rolled from one thing to another and it was a great time in my life going over and back across the Irish Sea. “It was fantastic to see some of the memories, it never gets old watching horses like Sizing John in the Gold Cup and Lostintranslation as well. “I’ve achieved everything I wanted to achieve and more in this sport and it’s been very good to me and I’m looking forward now to watching top-class winter racing this season. Thinking about coming into the winter, I probably am going to miss it and I’ll probably be a bit grumpy around Christmas. “Retirement has been good so far and I’m happy with my decision. Henry (de Bromhead) asked me to come over and receive his award and I was happy to do that, but I wasn’t expecting anything else! I had a fantastic career and it’s been great but to be rewarded with that was just amazing. Power, who recently joined the Bloodstock Team at Tattersalls Ireland, said on receiving his award: “It was a bit of a shock really, I didn’t expect to come over here for that. A son of leading international showjumper Con Power, “Puppy Power” was also successful in that sphere, partnering Doonaveeragh O One to victory in the Speed Derby at Hickstead in 2014. His four winners at The Festival™ were headed by Sizing John in the 2017 Cheltenham Gold Cup while a decade earlier he won the Grand National aboard Silver Birch. ![]() ![]() Power, who retired at the Punchestown Festival in April, partnered some 665 winners, of which 21 came at Grade One level. Robbie Power was the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution award. There were no nominations for the two special awards – the Outstanding Contribution and Judges’ Choice. Winners at The McCoys were determined by a panel of judges which in 2022 was made up of Sir AP McCoy himself, equestrian Olympian Zara Tindall, ITV Racing’s Ed Chamberlin, Racing Post journalist Chris Cook and Jon Pullin, Cheltenham’s Clerk of the Course. These are Aintree, Carlisle, Cheltenham, Exeter, Haydock Park, Huntingdon, Kempton Park, Market Rasen, Sandown Park, Warwick and Wincanton. In determining winners at The McCoys, performances over the course of the 2021-22 Jump season at all Jockey Club racecourses that stage Jump racing are taken into consideration. He retired from the saddle on the final day of the 2014-15 season at Sandown Park. ![]() The McCoys, the awards which recognise excellence in Jump Racing, were presented for the fifth time yesterday evening before an invited audience of 430 people in The Centaur at Cheltenham Racecourse in a ceremony hosted by Racing TV’s Nick Luck and Jill Douglas of ITV Sport.Įstablished in 2017, The McCoys are named in honour of the most successful Jump jockey of all-time, Sir AP McCoy, who rode a record 4,358 Jump winners during his career and was champion Jump jockey in Britain an unprecedented 20 times. ![]()
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