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The most successful jumps jockey in history, AP McCoy, will be hoping to go out on a high note as he retires from horse racing on Saturday at Sandown Park.

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Tony McCoy will retire from racing this weekend, over the next minute or so we'll take a look at what we'll be missing as we say goodbye to jump racing's greatest ever jockey...

In 1997 he made his mark on Cheltenham with wins riding Make a Stand in the Champion Hurdle and then Mr Mulligan in the Gold Cup. McCoy leading others up that famous hill would be a sight we'd see time and time again.

Sometimes he would need to fight back, like in the 2000 Champion Chase, McCoy was riding Edredon Bleu on the inside, what happened next epitomised how he could somehow get more out of a horse than anyone else.

In 2006 McCoy became Champion Jockey for the tenth year in a row, punters were understandably backing him, just look at the crowd here as he crossed the line on Brave Inca in the Champion Hurdle.

Despite all that success, one title eluded him, haunted him even, he had never won the Grand National at Aintree. That was until he rode Don't Push It in 2010.

The wins kept coming at Cheltenham too, none more famous than his Gold Cup win on Synchronised in 2012. We'll never see 20-time Champion Jockey there again but after 4,357 winners does he have one more left in him for the 18,000 sell out crowd at Sandown Park... You'd be brave to bet against him.