Can McCoy finally win the Grand National at Aintree?
/ Timeform / 30 March 2010 / Leave a comment Free £25 Bet “If I haven’t won the National, it’s always going to be a failure in my career.” There aren’t many targets to have eluded Tony McCoy, yet the millstone of not winning the Aintree showpiece continues to hang around his neck. Butler’s Cabin’s defeat in the 2009 renewal was McCoy’s latest failure in his apparently never-ending pursuit of success in the world’s most famous steeplechase, a run that started in 1995 when Martin Pipe’s Chatam crashed out at the 12th. In a career in which he’s both set and smashed records that are unlikely to ever be matched, including 289 winners in a year, more than 3,000 winners in total and 14 straight jockeys’ titles, it says plenty about McCoy’s staggering determination that the absence of Aintree glory on his record still irks him so much. How much of that frustration is down to the annual inquisition provided by so many pieces just like this, only McCoy himself can answer, though Aintree success
