Another Sports Personality of the Year with Racing shut out

Is it my imagination. I thought that Horse Racing was meant to be a major sport in the United Kingdom? Our main racing personalities are household names-right? Frankie Dettori has presented "Top of the Pops" and has been a team captain on "Question of Sport" and "Mutton Chops" McCririck has battled with Sly Stallone's mother on "Celebrity Big Brother" and fought tooth and nail with the ghastly former Conservative Member of Parliament Edwina Currie on "Celebrity Wife Swap"....

So how come yet again there is no jockey nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Frankie Dettori came closest to victory when coming 3rd behind Damon Hill in 1996 but a first victory in the 2007 Epsom Derby on Authorized should have at least seen him make the final 10.

And what about Britain's most consistently successful sportsman of the past 15 years-Phil Taylor excepted (sorry Phil I don't count Darts as a sport)-Tony McCoy. Tony McCoy is on course to win his 13th National Hunt jockeys Championship in a row and his record 289 wins in one season will probably never be broken.

True AP McCoy lacks Frankie's charisma but amongst the nominees is tennis player Andy Murray who has the personality of a stuffed haggis and this year only managed to improve his world ranking from 17 to 11.

Sportsmen representing fifteen separate sports have lifted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award since its inception in the early 1950s-yet no-one from racing has ever won the title.

There are two sportsmen from the world of racing who year in year out perform at the top level of their sport and their talents should be rewarded by the public.

Vote McCoy/Dettori for 2008 BBC Sports Personality of the Year!