Martin Pipe smashed his own record when Select Star won at Ludlow today to give him 200 winners for the season.
In a feat remarkable even by the nine-time champion's standards, it gave him the fastest double-century for a jumps trainer by no less than 69 days.
The quickest that the landmark had hitherto been reached was May 2nd, in 1990/1 - the third of Pipe's six previous 200-winner seasons.
The West country phenomenon, the only trainer ever to reach 200, went on to reach a record 230 winners that season.
Pipe has been tearing up the record books ever since he beat Michael Dickinson's mark of 120 winners in a season in 1987/8.
But this season has been special.
Not only did he beat his own record for the fastest 100 when Gloria Victis scored at Newbury in November.
But he has also overtaken Arthur Stephenson to become the winning-most trainer in British racing history, and recently became the first man to train 3,000 winners in this country.
Not that Pipe is just a master of the numbers game.
He has won the Grand National and its Irish, Scottish and Welsh equivalents, plus two Champion Hurdles.
And in both 1996/7 and 1997/8 he became the first trainer since the 1920s to saddle four winners at the Cheltenham Festival, the highlight of the jumps season.
Pipe watched the race from his Nicholashayne base but was on the phone to travelling head lad Eamon Leigh as Select Star was being led into the winner's enclosure.
"He's thrilled to bits," said Leigh. "All he said was 'McCoy's magnificent'. Records are a bonus for the guv'nor."
McCoy, visibly exhausted after riding his 206th winner of the season on the reluctant Select Star, paid tribute to the record-breaking trainer.
He said: "To beat his own record by 69 days just shows you. People keep saying it's impossible for him to break more records but he keeps churning them out. He's an amazing man - there are no other words to describe him."
Pipe, speaking from home, was delighted to reach the total again.
He said: "It's incredible to think that we've done it by 69 days, incredible that we've done it so much quicker than before."
Select Star had looked one of the first horses beaten in the Oak Novices' Claiming Hurdle but, under a typically powerful Tony McCoy ride, led approaching the final flight to score by six lengths.
"What a brilliant ride from Tony McCoy," Pipe added.
"Select Star has really responded to Tony and it proves what a great jockey he is - he really enjoys winning.
"The horses have been flying and hopefully they will keep going for the rest of the season."
