article_snippet.sent: Tony McCoy obeyed the signal for the jockeys to mount.
article_snippet.sent: Tony McCoy walked alongside Box Office, the final ride of Tony McCoy astonishing career, and then clambered into the saddle.
article_snippet.sent: Tony McCoy rode out on to the course.
article_snippet.sent: Now, Tony McCoy had one last shot at giving Sandown’s biggest crowd for a decade what they wanted by riding a winner.
article_snippet.sent: So one last time, Tony McCoy rode a mount around the Surrey track, racing the rest of the field and one of the red-and-blue trains that hurry along behind the tree line on the far side of the course, towards Waterloo.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy pushed Box Office all the way to the line and took the congratulations of McCoy fellow jockeys as his fellow jockeys and his fellow jockeys horses milled around McCoy.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy was about to head towards his 4,358th winner’s enclosure when McCoy was ushered back along the track.
article_snippet.sent: McCoy and Box Office trotted back in front of the stands packed with 18,000 cheering fans.
article_snippet.sent: Sandown Park was packed with punters and the media who were eager to give McCoy a memorable send off .
article_snippet.sent: Crowds wee packed into Sandown to wish McCoy well in McCoy final two rides .