Stafford Says - Equestrian posts

*Whilst the sporting world here in Britain may have been transfixed on the cricket, football, rugby and athletics front William Fox-Pitt was quietly going about his business in the world of eventing, capturing a record 6th Burghley and becoming, in the process, the world number one, deposing the evergreen Mary King, who finished a credible third.

I discovered two things about Tony (AP) McCoy the other night when we talked at the inaugural Jaguar Academy of Sports awards function at Lords. First, the man's hunger for winners remains insatiable. This is after winning the jockey's national hunt championships for the past 15 consecutive years. Yes, that's right.