AP McCoy reveals how fortune teller predicted his success on Late Late Show

Champion jockey AP McCoy has marked his 50th birthday by sitting down for a chat with Patrick Kielty on The Late Late Show.

The Moneyglass man reflected on his career and his life since retiring in 2015.

Speaking on the show, McCoy revealed that a fortune teller had predicted his success when he was just 16.

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"I went to Jim Bolger's this week in 1990 when I was 15. I went to the Strawberry Fair in Wexford in 1991 with a friend of mine, Conor Everard," he said.

"I don't know what the fortune teller told him but I went to this fortune teller when I was 16 and she told me that she could see horses and big stages.

"She told me that there is a jockey called Lester Piggot and she could see me like him.

"I remember going back to Conor and said that she didn't know what she was talking about!

"She genuinely would have had no idea that I had anything to do with horses!"

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