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walking out for the last ride

and the smile was a little more forced,

because he knows

that this extraordinary career,

his way of life in a sense,

is going to come to an end.

Sweetheart, enjoy watching this race.

This is Daddy's last race ever.

Archie, you have no idea

what's going on, have you?

Yeah.

He'll watch this when he's like 21.

Let's remember that,

a celebration of a great career,

but we want the headlines,

we want the Box Office

to give him the perfect send off

here, in the silks of JP McManus.

School, he's gonna do school runs.

Has anyone backed him by the way?

They jump away

and there's a cheer from the grandstand

even though there in the back straight,

raving black box office jumping

just in the midfield on the inside.

Green yellow hoops, white cap.

I remember

coming home one evening

and he was sitting there

just sobbing, absolutely sobbing,

because he was so petrified

that he wasn't going to be

champion jockey the next year.

It was like looking at somebody

who was living in fear of themselves.

I used to think the demons

had Olympic games

in my head sometimes,

but at the same time

in a crazy, mad kind of way

it's obviously what made me happy.

It's obviously what made me happy...

Torturing myself,

trying to figure out why that

every time I went out on a horse,

I didn't win, I could

never figure that out.

Maybe I thought if I could work that out,

then I would have been content.

'Cause it's slowly started to register

that maybe it wasn't possible after all.

C'mon champ.

I mean,

I wouldn't change it for the world

because it's made him

the person he is today.

- Come on, honey.

- Come on!

And it's made us the couple

we are today.

He will have to perform

just one more final miracle.

And it doesn't look like it's happening...

Come on, Anthony! Come on!

Come on, honey.

MCoy, who's won so many championships,

he gets the win.

I'm so jealous, I'm so jealous.

Enjoy. Enjoy, you deserve it, brother.

Dave Roberts, his agent,

the man who has booked

every one of his rides,

for 21 years, here in Great Britain,

is coming up the race course with him.

That is the end.

That's it, it's, it's...

It's gone. It's over.

As a professional jockey

I'm never going to ride a race again.

I'm a has-been, I'm a

retired sports person.

I don't see it as a second life,

I probably see it more

as a first life really,

the last was more a dream

then a life really...

And I just woke up.

So I might have lived a dream

but I'm awake now.

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