McCoy injury threatens 300 winners bid Tony McCoy´s broken arm, suffered in a fall at Worcester last night, is a big setback to his oft-stated target of riding 300 winners in a season. The champion jockey, who received an MBE in the Queen´s Birthday Honours List last week, has rewritten jump racing´s record books since his 1994-95 British debut season, when he was leading conditional jockey. He recorded the most successful season in racing history when he partnered 289 winners in 2001-02, but the astonishing feat only fuelled his desire for more. And even becoming the most successful jump jockey of all time last August, when he passed Richard Dunwoody´s total of 1,699 winners, failed to diminish his hunger. The Antrim-born rider famously described last season as 'a disaster' despite notching 257 winners, and immediately announced his intention of trying for 300 this time. He is seeking to win the jockeys´ championship for the ninth consecutive season after equalling Peter Scudamore on eight, and said at the start of the campaign: 'I would like to ride 300 winners if I can. I just have to stay injury-free and hope the weather is good through the winter so that I can ride more winners.' McCoy did not have an injury-free campaign last season, breaking his left collarbone at the Cheltenham Festival in a fall from Golden Alpha at the third-last fence in the Grand Annual Challenge Cup. He had only returned to race-riding a short time before after being sidelined with a left shoulder injury following a fall at Kempton. The injuries and the loss of meetings to a cold snap scuppered his hopes of reaching the 300 mark after he had been odds-on to achieve the feat going into the New Year. He has ridden 36 winners so far this season but this latest injury could give the great champion, much-loved by punters for his never-say-die attitude, a mountain to climb again.
