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Cheltenham Festival - The Champion Hurdle

National Hunt Horse Racing - 1997 Cheltenham Festival -Smurfit Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
AP McCoy jumps the last fence at the head of the field on Make A Stand on the way to winning the race.
It was the first of McCoy's three victories in the race.
11/03/1997

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Tony Mccoy

Grand National

National Hunt Horse Racing - 1995 Grand National - Aintree
The race starts. AP McCoy, making his debut in the race, is on Chatam, the fifth rider from the left that can be seen. (#6; colours: Royal Blue, Emerald Green epaulets and armlets).
Chatam fell at 12th fence.
08/04/1995

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Tony Mccoy

Red Rum on Southport Beach

Horse Racing
Red Rum trains on Southport beach, Merseyside, in April 1980, the week before that year's Grand National.
The legendary horse won the famous race in 1973, 1974 and 1977, and also came second in the two intervening years. He was trained on the sand and in the sea at Southport as it proved therapeutic for a bone disease in his hoof

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