Horsemen's Group chairman Paul Dixon has urged his organisation's 11,000-strong membership, made up of owners, trainers, breeders, jockeys and stable staff, to vote for Tony McCoy to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year this Sunday evening, 19th December.

‘Go Racing in Yorkshire’ is throwing its weight behind 15-times champion jockey over Jumps, Tony McCoy in his bid to become the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

The vote takes place on the evening of Sunday, 19 December.

Bangor-on-Dee Racecourse has a fantastic seven-race card with an excellent numbers of entries this Wednesday 15th December, as so much National Hunt racing has been cancelled throughout the country over the last few weeks, due to the weather.  

Royal Windsor Racecourse is throwing its weight behind 15 -times champion jockey Tony McCoy in his bid to become the 2010 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Sports fans are being encouraged to have their picture taken with 15-times champion jockey Tony McCoy - and be in with a chance of winning free tickets to Coral Welsh National day at Chepstow Racecourse.

But there's no need to go searching for the real McCoy - there will be five life-size cut-outs of him appearing in shops in Chepstow from next Saturday (11 December).

During his 21 years as a jockey, AP McCoy has ridden in more than 13,000 races, been the winner on more than 3,300 occasions and collected almost every major jump racing prize.

So it must have been a challenging task for him to select just ten of these victories as his personal favourites.

 

Cheltenham racecourse is pleased to announce that the £150,000 Grade Three December Gold Cup, one of the highlights of The International on Saturday, 11 December, will this year be run as the Vote A P Gold Cup. 

In the run-up to his year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, a special appeal will be made at Market Rasen Racecourse's fixture next Thursday (2 December) for sports fans to back 15-times champion jockey Tony McCoy.

 

The Stewart Family are continuing their generous support of Spinal Research by sponsoring the complete raceday at Plumpton Racecourse on Wednesday 1^st December, to raise awareness of the 40,000 people suffering with a spinal injury in the UK - and they are also sponsoring a race in support of fifteen times champion jump jockey AP McCoy for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year competition during the day.

Exeter Racecourse has named two races after AP McCoy as they increase their efforts to help get the champion jockey installed as the BBC’s 2010 Sports Personality of the Year.

AP was a much better jockey than I was at a young age, and there is no doubt that he has a natural talent, but it is his mental strength that has taken him to, and kept him at, the top.[…] The fear of failure leads to a mindset that is never satisfied, which is what makes the addiction to winning so insatiable. That is AP’s greatest talent above others: harnessing that fear of failure and channelling it into incredible success.