Lester Piggott was so competitive that it would have rankled that he never quite reached 5,000 winners. He got close with 4,493 victories in a remarkable career that saw him crowned champion jockey 11 ...
IN the Sport of Kings, he wore the crown. He was the greatest jockey of them all, with a record nine Epsom Derby triumphs among 30 classic victories. Please provide a ...
Iconic jockey Lester Piggott is dead aged 86 after battling heart problems – 48 hours after his daughter said he was on the mend in hospital. His mercurial career in the saddle, which inspired a mass ...
Lester Piggott, arguably the 20th century's most iconic racing figure, has died at the age of 86. Piggott had been in hospital in Switzerland where he moved to live in 2012. That move in retirement ...
From his first victory aged 12 to his last nearly 50 years later, jockey Lester Piggott was a ruthless winner who became a racing icon. Tall for a rider in flat racing, he spent much of his career on ...
He won his first race at age 12 and his last in his 50s, and he rode to a record 30 victories in the five most important British thoroughbred races. By Richard Sandomir Lester Piggott, one of ...
The only thing known to millions of people about the sport of horse racing is the name of Lester Piggott. To the unversed, his was the name on countless betting slips in successive runnings of the ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you want to know the story of veteran News4JAX newsman Jim Piggott, it can be found in what has become a second home for him over the past four decades. Much of the city of ...