article_snippet.sent: The second act of AP McCoy life.
article_snippet.sent: Just entries in record books and the fact AP McCoy will never have to put AP McCoy hand in AP McCoy pocket at any racetrack in Britain or Ireland to remind AP McCoy of what was.
article_snippet.sent: To date, AP McCoy has 4,357 winning memories.
article_snippet.sent: It cannot be said that AP McCoy has courted celebrity, or that AP McCoy will ever be regarded as a little man by racegoers, yet as AP McCoy scurries to AP McCoy new life, minus its thrills, spills and the snap of broken bones, one cannot help but ask: why?
article_snippet.sent: AP McCoy children were born through IVF treatment.
article_snippet.sent: Yet not one of AP McCoy's thoughts on retiring has centred greatly on the inconveniences or even the pain of injury.
article_snippet.sent: AP McCoy doesn't now talk excitedly of lavish lunches or late nights, of never having to look at a fractured vertebrae via x-ray; there is no hint of the social whirl experienced by Sir Alex Ferguson on stepping down at Manchester United.
article_snippet.sent: The rest of AP McCoy retirement talk amounts to wishful thinking.
article_snippet.sent: AP McCoy simply reiterates AP McCoy would still like to be riding.
article_snippet.sent: If AP McCoy could ride in disguise for another three years AP McCoy would do just that.
article_snippet.sent: And why would AP McCoy need a mask?
article_snippet.sent: That is the puzzle of AP McCoy's decision: the fear that appears to be at the heart of it.
article_snippet.sent: AP McCoy is genuinely, unfathomably, unnerved by the thought of staying too long, of not going out a winner.
article_snippet.sent: Yet, another year of AP McCoy?
article_snippet.sent: There is no margin anywhere comparable to the distance AP McCoy and the rest.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy is unnerved by the thought of staying too long, of not going out a winner .
article_snippet.sent: Yet McCoy's farewell is almost troubling. '
article_snippet.sent: When McCoy retired, they should have shot McCoy,' said Jack Charlton of McCoy brother, Bobby.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy, almost certainly, will find a berth in racing where McCoy expertise will be valued, no doubt with JP McManus.
article_snippet.sent: For an athlete at the top as McCoy has been for so long, nothing can quite compare to the thrill of competition.
article_snippet.sent: For McCoy, any competition.
article_snippet.sent: Whatever McCoy's place in the world from here, it cannot compare to the thrill of the chase.
article_snippet.sent: Maybe, deep down, AP McCoy wondered how long AP McCoy could continue to dodge the big one – the fall that might challenge AP McCoy champion status. '
article_snippet.sent: McCoy has been trying to prepare McCoy for that moment all week.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy is not looking forward to the weekend after, when McCoy feels it will truly hit home. '