text: Peter Scudamore rode an incredible 1,678 winners but has seen his achievements dwarfed by AP McCoy. Here, he identifies what he believes are the 10 finest achievements of Saturday's retiring champion. 1 RIDING HIS 4,000th WINNER AT TOWCESTER ON NOVEMBER 7, 2013 . He has won virtually every big race in the calendar but McCoy’s greatest feat has to be the immense tally of winners he has ridden. To put his numbers into perspective, in the all-time list of successful jockeys, great rival Richard Johnson is closest to him and the gap is around 1,500 winners. Tony McCoy celebrating after he won his 4,000th race on board Mountain Tune at Wetherby in 2013 . 2 HIS 20 STRAIGHT JUMP JOCKEY TITLES . If you like your champions dominant, you have to love McCoy. No modern sportsman can match his reign. He outstrips 16-time darts world champion Phil Taylor by almost 200 weeks, with a staggering 1,040 weeks at the top. That compares to 364 for Formula One’s Michael Schumacher and 302 for tennis ace Roger Federer. 3 WINNING THE 1994-95 CONDITIONAL JOCKEYS CHAMPIONSHIP . McCoy hit the ground running on his arrival in Britain from Ireland, landing the apprentice title for jumps jockeys with a record 74 wins. Not surprisingly, it is another McCoy record which still stands. 4 RECORD 290 WINNERS IN A SEASON (2001-02) The 300-winner season McCoy craved proved too much even for him but he got close with 289 in Britain and one abroad. His feat outstripped the European record of German Peter Schiergen (271 in 1995) and Sir Gordon Richards’ best of 269 in 1947. 5 WINNING BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR IN 2010 . Not to be underestimated. Frankie Dettori and Lester Piggott are household names but neither of those great jockeys won this prestigious title. McCoy’s prodigious achievements have transcended racing’s usual boundaries and his peerless career has gained the respect it deserves. McCoy stands proud with his Sport Personality of the Year Award in Birmingham in 2010 . 6 DON’T PUSH IT’S 2010 GRAND NATIONAL WIN . Picking out even a handful of McCoy’s best wins is an exercise in subjective futility. We all have our favourites but Don’t Push It’s victory at Aintree was arguably the most significant on the greatest stage. Plenty of top jockeys have never had a sniff of the Grand National winner’s enclosure. McCoy celebrates aboard Grand National winner Don't Push It at Aintree racecourse in 2013 . 7 WORTH HIS WEIGHT . Unbelievably, given the lengths to which he has gone to control his weight and boil himself down, McCoy has never had to put up overweight (carry more than his mount was allotted). It is another example of his extraordinary self control. 8 BREAKING MY FASTEST TIME TO 100 WINNERS IN A SEASON . I never thought my fastest-to-100-wins record would stand forever but in November 1996 McCoy thrashed my best by 30 days. A season later and he beat his own record by 16 days. This season he set a new best for a fastest ton on August 21, 116 days into the season. McCoy achieved the fastest ever century of jumping winners at Warwick in 1996 on board Class of 92 . 9 NOT JUST THE WIDTH, FEEL THE QUALITY . He has not had the consistent big-race firepower of compatriot Ruby Walsh but 31 winners at the Cheltenham Festival is still an amazing tally for McCoy and includes three Champion Hurdles and two Gold Cups. To put that in perspective, John Francome only had 10 Festival wins and Richard Dunwoody 18, while I had 13. In all, he rode 196 wins at Cheltenham. 10 THE WORCESTER SOURCE . McCoy has ridden more winners at Worcester — 298 from 1,089 rides — than at any course in Britain and the venue, while not individually significant, is symbolic. It shows what a force of energy he has been at the mundane weekly meetings. Never has his motivation dropped, no matter how small the stage. It is a trait which set him apart. McCoy has ridden more winners at Worcester, 298 from 1,089 rides, than at any course in Britain .
target: AP McCoy has two rides at Sandown before he retires from horse racing .
  Iron man McCoy will be awarded with his 20th champion jockey trophy .
  Peter Scudamore lists his top 10 achievements by racing hero McCoy .