RACING: Tony McCoiychalked up his 250th winner of the season when partnering Going Global to victory at Plumpton yesterday. ...

The five-year-old, trained by Gary Moore, gave McCoy one of his easiest winners of the winter.

The evens favourite ploughed through the mud in tremendous style to take the Super Sunracing Novices' Hurdle by a distance from Engstrum, with Apple Joe 30 lengths further back in third.

The six-times champion jump jockey is now just 19 short of Gordon Richards' all-time record of 269 winners set in 1947.

McCoy is only three short of his personal best of 253 winners he set in the 1997-98 campaign - the only other time he has amassed 250.

However, Martin Pipe, to whom McCoy is stable jockey, is still stuck on 199 winners for the season after drawing a blank at Plumpton from four runners.

His last success over jumps was with Jaybejay at Wincanton on Thursday.