After his success in the 2010 Grand National, jockey A.P. McCoy is heavily tipped to win the The BBC Sports Personality of The Year award.

Horse racing, of course,  still a minority sport in Britain, watched by a hardcore few. In the past amazing Jockey’s like Frankie Detorri have failed to claim the BBC title even when hugely popular with non racing fans like Frankie was.

However A.P. has over amassed over 3,000 winners, broken every record in the sport: Number of winners in a season, fastest jockey to reach the 1,000 winners mark, all-time top jumps jockey. Surely this year it will be impossible to ignore the steeplechase jockey. Considering the England team failed to impress in the world cup, Andy Murray didn’t win Wimbledon and no other star is in the running, maybe it will be A.P.’s year.

A.P. is also likely to ride one of J.P.’s horses again in the Grand National 2011 race which is set to be run on the 9th of April.