Being AP Page #2

And I have a great agent in Dave Roberts,

who books all my rides, you know,

so, um, you have to continue winning.

The season finishes

on the Saturday,

it starts again, I think,

now on the Tuesday,

you're back to zero

and you've got to be riding winners quickly

if you want to be champion jockey.

Hi, Dave Roberts speaking.

Hi, Dave, I'll pass you over to Alan.

I'm just checking with Chepstow tomorrow...

No, I don't run.

I've just spoken to Frank,

and we're not going to run him

on heavy ground.

Okay, so AP won't be riding him

tomorrow like that.

His kind of approach is numerical, if any

horse can win any race, he will ride it,

good jumper or bad jumper.

- Was there anything else?

- Okay, no thanks, bye.

That's what's got him where he is,

the fact that people know

that he will always ride everyday

if it's physically possible,

and that is the difference.

Yeah, very well, no, that's

fine for AP tonight.

Getting to the tally of 4,000,

that's probably a lot to

do why he's got there,

'cause either he'll go racing when a lot of

people, years ago, wouldn't have done.

They would've took days

off, but not him, no.

Rushing round these

little tracks, riding winners

for a couple of thousand,

and that... Are those basically, are those

his championship months, aren't they?

Yeah, they are.

I think what makes it extraordinary is

he's only got to compete against himself.

Yeah, he's still

willing to get in the car,

drive five hours up to

Newcastle for one ride,

turn around and then do it all over again.

Thank you very much, sir,

and the best of luck to you.

Yes, that's right,

I mean, we're betting on

whether he'll reach 5,000 winners,

this is the next enormous land mark,

and, of course, when he got to 4,000,

we thought it was highly unlikely.

It's all numbers.

It's only ever been numbers.

It was about riding as many winners

as quickly as possible,

and give them as little time to dream about

even being champion jockey, as possible,

because the longer they have,

the more sometimes it can become reality.

I always wanted to just sicken them

as quickly as possible.

I wanted it to be over before it started

if I could help it, you know?

You know, and it's always that thing,

he wants them to look across at him

and go, "Oh, no, it's AP,"

and that's what you do

when you're riding against him,

you just think, "Oh, yeah, I've

got a chance, got a chance,"

then you look across,

and go, "Oh, no, it's like Doctor Death."

And they're off.

Lucky Prince is the first away being

followed by Chalk It Down and Dresden,

they're chased by Black Sea King

and Valley Brig and as they step over...

And they're rallying to the outside,

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