IN the latest edition of the Worcester News 'Sport Replay' series, we go back to 1997 when a young, soon-to-be legendary jockey showed his undoubted potential by winning at the Worcester Racecourse.

In the 6.10 Suddington Selling Handicap Hurdle at Worcester, 26 years ago, then 23-year-old Anthony Peter (AP) McCoy won the race on board Couchant.

Six-year-old Couchant (Ireland) went off in the race as the 3-1 favourite and moved through the gears in the race to take the lead from two fences out, before cruising to victory for trainer Martin Charles Pipe CBE.

It was the start of a glorious relationship between jockey and trainer, who together went on to dominate the sport f horse racing.

McCoy finished his career at the conclusion of the 2014/15 season having rode 4,358 winners in National Hunt racing, and was Champion Jockey a record 20 consecutive times, every year that he was a professional.

He would go on to become the first jockey to win BBC Sport Personality of the Year in 2010, as well as being knighted in 2016.