article_snippet.sent: Exactly 25 years ago, the 15-year-old AP left the 15-year-old AP home in Moneyglass, County Antrim, to head to the respected but strict regime of an apprentice jockey
article_snippet.sent: Him and Him father went with the late (trainer)
article_snippet.sent: Track officials had been keen to secure someone with a connection to the club that the retiring rider supports.
article_snippet.sent: Derby winning trainer
article_snippet.sent: It had been at Rock’s local stable that the AP McCoy jockey bug had really been born.
article_snippet.sent: The young AP spent every hour AP McCoy could at the stable 11 miles from AP McCoy home, at one point hitching a lift in a butcher
article_snippet.sent: I wouldn't say Peadar was happy
article_snippet.sent: but Peadar wanted to give Peadar the opportunity to be a jockey.