Don't Force It. On April 10, 2010, I made my fifteenth try riding Don't Push It, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and owned by J. P. McManus. McCoy won his second Cheltenham Gold Cup on Synchronised, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and owned by JP McManus, in 2012, 15 years after winning the first on Mr. Mulligan. He has also won the Irish Grand National on Two By Two and The Captain. Tony McCoy was born on August 5, 1975 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland. His family moved to Bangor when he was a child where he began riding horses at an early age. He became one of the leading jockeys in Europe during the late 1990s and early 2000s, winning the King George VI Chase on Golden Horn in 2001 and the Irish Grand National on Two By Two in 2012. In 2004 he was banned for two years by the British Horseracing Authority for testing positive for cocaine use. After returning from his suspension he went on to win another King George VI Chase in 2005 with Golden Horn. After losing his father when he was just twenty-one years old, McCoy decided that a career in racing was not for him and took up boxing. He had some success as a boxer before switching careers again. This time he found success as a trainer beginning in 2006 when he took over training duties on Mr. Mulligan who had been successful as a racehorse before being sold.