Taunton trip fruitless for McCoy

Racing : Tony McCoy continues to find the 3,000th jumps winner of his career an elusive figure after failing to hit the target…

Racing: Tony McCoy continues to find the 3,000th jumps winner of his career an elusive figure after failing to hit the target with two mounts at Taunton.

The 13-times champion jockey, who has been stuck on the 2,998 mark since last Thursday, was set to head to Huntingdon for a good book of rides this afternoon but had to switch after that meeting was abandoned.

At first he had just one mount booked in the shape of the Philip Hobbs-trained Adare Prince, but he proved disappointing in the Carlsberg UK Handicap Chase and was pulled up a long way from home.

McCoy said: "When I was going to Huntingdon I wasn't particularly worried about missing the ride on him.

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"They did well to get a win out of him at Hereford but I had to come here as he is owned by the boss.

"It's been a pretty quiet few days really as there has been nothing on at all."

McCoy later picked up a last-minute ride on You Know Bridie for Neil Mulholland in the concluding Trull Mares' Handicap Hurdle but after travelling strongly into contention, she eventually passed the post in third.

McCoy tries again at Bangor on Friday - although the meeting must survive a 7.15am inspection.

He is set to get the leg-up on Galaxy Rock in the opening EBF 'National Hunt' Novices' Hurdle and the McManus-owned Forty Five in the Delamere Warrington LLP Handicap Hurdle.

His next ride comes on Picture In The Sky in the Hampton Veterinary Group Novices' Hurdle, and he then goes in the concluding bangor-on-dee Racing Club Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race, in which he rides Paisley Cross.

McCoy is also pencilled in to ride at Newbury on Saturday, when he has been confirmed to take the mount on the Philip Hobbs-trained Belcantista in the totesport Trophy.

The prestigious card in Berkshire is subject to an 8am inspection on Friday morning.